Brandon Welsh

Will CCTV cameras in the ByWard Market help curb violent crime? Hardly

The meta-analysis is by Brandon Welsh, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, and David Farrington of Cambridge University, publishing in a journal called Criminology and Public Policy.

Freakonomics

When helping hurts

WELSH: Long before Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries, and all the others like them, there was a civic-minded Harvard physician named Richard Clarke Cabot. That’s Brandon Welsh, a criminologist at Northeastern University. WELSH: For Bostonians: he was a member of the Cabot family. The Cabots and the Lodges, very distinguished family …

New York’s LED streetlights: A crime deterrent to some, a nuisance to others

Research differs on whether better lighting leads to a reduction in crime, though a 2007 meta-analysis of 13 cities around the world, including eight in the United States, showed an overall reduction. “I believe in New York, you would expect to see a positive result,” said Brandon Welsh, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University […]