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In recent years, researchers have argued that police actions should be focused on high-risk crime places rather than spread thinly across the urban landscape. This review examines the available evaluation evidence on the effects of concentrating police enforcement efforts on crime hot spots. Five randomized experiments & four nonequivalent control group quasi-experiments were identified. The findings of these evaluations suggest that focused police actions can prevent crime & disorder in crime hot spots. These studies also suggest that focused police actions at specific locations do not necessarily result in crime displacement. Unintended crime prevention benefits were also associated with the hot spots policing programs. Although these evaluations reveal that these programs work in preventing crime, additional research is needed to unravel other important policy-relevant issues such as community reaction to focused police enforcement efforts. 2 Tables, 52 References. [Copyright 2001 Sage Publications, Inc.]

Résumé Malgré l'importance grandissante des études sur la diffusion de l'innovation dans le domaine scientifique en général, celles-ci demeurent rares dans le domaine de la recherche sur la police. Nous utilisons l'innovation au sein des polices américaines au 20 e siècle pour une étude de cas afin d'y appliquer le paradigme de la diffusion de l'innovation. Notre argument est que les chemins empruntés par l'innovation policière s'expliquent par le contexte de remise en cause du modèle standard de police. Plus généralement notre travail renforce l'idée que le paradigme de la diffusion de l'innovation est important pour comprendre l'évolution des organisations et des stratégies policières.

There is good evidence that the police can control crime hot spots without simply displacing crime problems to other places. Police officers should strive to use problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention techniques to address the place dynamics, situations, and characteristics

AbstractIllegal guns circulating among high‐risk networks represent a threat to the security and well‐being of urban neighborhoods. Research findings reveal that illegal firearms are usually acquired through a variety of means, including theft and diversions from legitimate firearms commerce. Little is known, however, about the underground gun markets supplying the gang and drug networks responsible for a large share of gun violence in U.S. cities. In this article, we take a mixed‐methods approach, combining trace analyses of recovered handguns with ethnographic interviews of high‐risk gun users to develop new insights on the entry of guns into three criminal networks in Boston. We find that guns possessed by Boston gang members are of a different character compared with other crime guns; these guns are more likely to be older firearms originating from New Hampshire, Maine, and I‐95 southern states. The results of our qualitative research reveal that gang members and drug dealers pay inflated prices for handguns diverted by traffickers exploiting unregulated secondary market transactions, with significant premiums paid for high‐caliber semiautomatic pistols. Taken together, these findings provide an analytic portrait of the market for illicit guns among those most proximate to violence, yielding novel empirical, theoretical, and practical insights into the problem of criminal gun access.