Lighting and Homicides: Evaluating the Effect of an Electrification Policy in Rural Brazil on Violent Crime Reduction

O que funciona e o que não funciona para reduzir homicídios no Brasil: uma revisão sistemática

“…Criar Secretaria Municipal de Segurança (Scripilliti, 2006); Disque-Denúncia (Scripilliti, 2006); Policiamento com foco em armas (Oliveira & Rostirolla, 2017); Programa de abertura de escolas nos finais de semana (Vasconcellos & Menezes, 2005); Eletrificação/Iluminação (Arvate, Falsete, Ribeiro & Souza, 2018) Juizado de Violência Doméstica e Familiar contra a mulher (Schiavon, 2017) Aumentar o orçamento da assistência social (Loureiro & Carvalho, 2006) UPP -homicídio doloso (Butelli, 2015;Ferraz & Ottoni, 2013) Indefinido Efetivo Policial (Fajnzylber & Araújo, 2001;Pereira, 2016;Sachsida & Mendonça, 2013Schuch, 2017); Orçamento da Segurança Pública (Kume, 2004;Loureiro & Carvalho, 2006;Pereira, 2016;Santos, 2009); Delegacia da Mulher (Perova & Reynolds, 2016;Schiavon, 2017) Campanha de entrega de armas (Scorzafave, Soares & Dorigan, 2015); Lei de Drogas de 2006 (Sachsida & Mendonça, 2014); Redução da maioridade (Costa et al, 2018).…”

Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

“…The available evidence on street lighting suggests that its impact on public safety is promising, reducing crime by, on average, 20% (Welsh and Farrington 2008) and perhaps by as much as 40% if lighting is deployed in order to maximize its salience to community residents (Chalfin et al 2020). Findings are especially large for common street crimes like robbery (Doleac and Sanders 2015;Domínguez and Asahi 2019) and motor vehicle theft (Davies and Farrington 2018) and possibly even homicide in a developing country setting (Arvate et al 2018).…”

“…Even in national samples, research reports that many individuals never leave home after it is dark due to concerns regarding their safety (Kershaw et al 2001;Cozens et al 2003). Third, the response of potential victims to a public safety intervention is a key mediator of an intervention's efficacy and, as such, evidence on victim behavior is needed to contextualize effects observed in the large and growing empirical literature that studies the effect of ambient lighting on crime (Welsh and Farrington 2008;Doleac and Sanders 2015;Arvate et al 2018;Davies and Farrington 2018;Chalfin et al 2020). In particular, to the extent that lighting makes individuals feel safer and thus draws them outdoors during nighttime hours, the number of available crime victims might increase, an effect which would tend to counteract the principal goal of municipal investments in lighting (Cozens et al 2005;Lorenc et al 2012).…”

Daylight Saving Time and Homicides: Light Effect in Crimes of a Brazilian State

“…In their model, the expected cost of crime is a function that depends, besides other factors, on the probability of capture, which depends on the light of the environment. Among some papers that relate the clarity of the environment to criminal activity, we can highlight Salvi (2011), which studied the additional perpetuation of lights in Los Angeles, and Arvate et al (2015), who evaluated the Brazilian federal program Luz para Todos (Light for All) in the rural environment, which found a reduction in the number of violent crimes.…”