The Reducing Crime blog

It was a real privilege to deliver the Jerry Lee lecture at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium in 2023. My thanks to Jerry Lee, Larry...

Looking for multimedia for your fall policing class? Here are ten topics covered by the @_ReducingCrime podcast with some ideas for...

In my podcast episode with Dr. Phil Goff I outlined some rough estimates on numbers of people shot and killed by police in a year, and...

The publication of a new novel by the master of the spy genre John le Carré got me thinking about one of his other works, the underrated...

Further information related to Ella Cockbain's Reducing Crime podcast episode.

Ideas for instructors looking for ways to add interesting multimedia activities to their class.

After a course assignment in my evidence-based policing class, it was clear that a few of my students were still struggling with the...

In this guest blog, Dr. Tamara Herold explains the award-winning PIVOT project and how Cincinnati has used it to reduce crime and...

What is it? Gift certificates, cash or other forms of compensation given, usually anonymously, in exchange for firearms. Does it work?...

What is it? Hot spots policing strategies increase police attention to places with concentrated criminal opportunities. Does it work? Hot...

In this guest blog, vignette author Police Scotland Chief Inspector Martin Gallagher outlines Operation Winter Shield. In chapter 4 of...

The Reducing Crime website supports readers of the book in a number of ways. First, the chapters pages provide links to additional...

On a recent intelligence-led policing course I was teaching in El Salvador, we were talking about how to tackle complicated problems. And...