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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City / Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Jason Lerner, Lucie Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chalfin, Aaron.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25798.
- NBER working paper series no. w25798
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape - street lighting - and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a unique public partnership in New York City, temporary streetlights were randomly allocated to public housing developments from March through August 2016. We find evidence that communities that were assigned more lighting experienced sizable reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a minimum, to a 36 percent reduction in nighttime outdoor index crimes.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2019.
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