Science Committee Member David Wesiburd quoted in article, Neighbors Reluctant to Act in High Crime Areas

Jun 28, 2019

The level of citizen willingness to intervene in local public safety problems such as street drug dealing is related to the crime rate in the area, says criminologist David Weisburd of George Mason University, who conducts research on crime “hot spots.”

Preliminary results of an ongoing study of high-crime areas in Baltimore show that the higher the crime rate is in a “hot spot,” the less likely local residents are to take part in anticrime activities, Weisburd told the annual symposium on evidence-based crime policy on Thursday, sponsored by George Mason’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy which Weisburd heads. Read more.

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