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Oscar Newman’s 1972 book Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design is widely credited for illustrating how the design of public housing influenced criminal opportunity.18 Newman focused his case studies on NYC public housing complexes, where, he pointed out, robbery rates were much greater in high-rise buildings, even when the actual
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
Bill Tafoya, the special agent who served as our “futurist” at Quantico, advocated a minimum of a ten-year commitment of money and resources on the magnitude of what we sent into the Persian Gulf. He calls for a wide-scale reinstatement of Project Head Start, one of the most effective long-term, anticrime programs in history. He doesn’t think more
... See moreJohn E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker • Mindhunter
of both “Sharon the Murderer” and “Begin the Murderer.”
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
While there is a body of research that suggests that public housing is correlated with crime, it remains unclear if it is the buildings’ design, the social organization of public housing,21 its mismanagement,22 or the land-use patterns around these places that promotes crime.23 Weighing the relative impact of these possible causal factors is
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
VICTIM: The million-copy bestselling forensic mystery series (CSI Reilly Steel Book 2)
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