Effect of Gang Injunctions on Crime: A Study of Los Angeles from 1988 –2014

ConclusionsInjunctions represent a powerful place-based intervention strategy for police and prosecutors. Courts have recently subjected gang injunctions to closer scrutiny. This study indicates that gang injunctions contributed to a meaningful amount of the crime reductions in Los Angeles. Future research should examine whether gang injunctions reduce crime by specific deterrent effects on individual gang members or by the general deterrent effect of placing an area under greater police surveillance and restricting public gatherings and other actions deemed to be indicators of gang activity.

Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - November 1, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research