‘Lowering the threshold of effective deterrence’—Testing the effect of private security agents in public spaces on crime: A randomized controlled trial in a mass transit system
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187392
Abstract: Supplementing local police forces is a burgeoning multibillion-dollar private security industry. Millions of formal surveillance agents in public settings are tasked to act as preventative guardians, as their high visibility presence is hypothesized to create… read more here.
Keywords: police; private security; security; security agents ... See more keywords