Read the new edited collection from the IJC focusing on the crime-related effects of resource-based #boomtowns.  The focus of the articles t

In the meanwhile read about the problem of zombie cops in voodoo criminology ... The widely held criminological ‘knowledge’ that foot patrol beat policing is ineffective at either arresting offenders or reducing crime is substantially supported by research conducted by Clarke and Hough (1984), which makes the claim that: ‘…a patrolling policeman in London could expect to pass within 100 yards of a burglary in progress, roughly once every eight years but not necessarily catch