Evidence-based Crime Prevention: The effectiveness of CCTV

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 21-33

  Welsh, Brandon C ^a   Farrington, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCTV; evidence based crime prevention; meta analysis; situational crime prevention; surveillance; systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844446520     PISSN: 14603780     EISSN: 17434629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8140184     Document Type: Article

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