Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database

Public Safety

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"Fire Safer" Cigarettes: The Effect of the New York State Cigarette Fire Safety Standard on Ignition Propensity, Smoke Toxicity and the Consumer Market
A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
Bicycle Safety Behavior in Paris and Boston
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment
Churches, Charities, and Corrective Justice: Making Churches Pay for the Sins of Their Clergy
Community Corrections Programs at the Suffolk County House of Correction: Strategies for Optimizing Use while Minimizing Risk
Community Policing and Youth as Assets
Consequences for Victims: A Comparison of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assaults
Creating an Effective Foundation to Prevent Youth Violence: Lessons Learned from Boston in the 1990s
Crowd Control That Can Kill: Can American Police Get a Grip on Their New, "Less-Lethal" Weapons Before They Kill Again?
Emergency Management: The Relationship Between Harvard University and the City of Cambridge
End of a Miracle? Crime, Faith, and Partnership in Boston in the 1990s
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth
Gender, Economic Context, Perceptions of Safety, and Quality of Life: A Case Study of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1982-1996
Hate Crimes Hurt More
Improving Employment Outcomes Through the Massachusetts Parole Board's Regional Reentry Center Initiative: Policy Analysis and Recommendations
Linear Parks and Urban Neighbourhoods: A Study of the Crime Impact of the Boston South-west Corridor
Massport: The Aftermath of 9/11
Needed Corrections: Promising Strategies for Improving Massachusetts' Prisons and Jails
On the Demand for City Living
Police and Riots, 1967 - 1969
Prison, Hospital or Community: Community Re-Entry and Mentally Ill Offenders
Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire
Protecting the Innocent: The Massachusetts Governor’s Council Report
Punishing Not-for-Profit: Implications of Nonprofit Privatization in Juvenile Punishment
Reducing Gang Violence in Boston
Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey
Rethinking Justice in Massachusetts: Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment
Serious Youth Gun Offenders and the Epidemic of Youth Violence in Boston
Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century
Shipping Container Security at Boston's Conley Terminal
Street Culture in Cambridge, Massachusetts?: The Perceptions of "Poor", "At-Risk" Teens Near Harvard
Terrorism: A Community Response
The Massachusetts DNA Database: Getting Started
The Multiple Dimensions of Trust in Resident/Police Relations in Boston
Workplace Violence: Wakefield Responds

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