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. 2019 Dec 14;16(24):5119. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16245119

Table 1.

Literature Review Matrix by Predictors and Outcomes.

All Violent Crime Violent Crime
(Not Homicide or Rape)
Homicide Only Gun Violence
Parks Abu-Lughod (‘06) ° ↑
Blair et al. (‘17) ° ~
Brown (‘18) ° ↓
Lee (‘13) ° ~
McCord et al. (‘17) † ↑
Nitkowski (‘17) ° ↓
Boessen et al. (‘18) ° ~
Kim et al. (‘18) ° ↑
Culyba et al. (‘16) ° ↓ DeMotto et al. (‘06) ° ~
Community gardens/greening Blair (‘14) † ♦ ~
Blair et al. (‘17) ° ~
Gorham et al. (‘09) ° ♦ ~
Heinze et al. (‘18) Δ ↓
Kondo et al. (‘16) Δ ↓
Sadler et al. (‘17) Δ ↓
Wilcox et al. (‘13)
Culyba et al. (‘16) ° ~ Branas et al. (‘11) Δ ↓
Branas et al. (‘16) Δ ↓
Branas et al. (‘18) Δ ♦ ↓
Garvin et al. (‘13) Δ ♦ ~
Vegetated streets and walkways Auchincloss (‘19) † ~
Burley (‘18) ° ↓ ~
Harris et al. (‘18) † ↓
Harris (‘18) † ♦ ↓
Locke et al. (‘17) Δ ~
Crewe (‘01) † ♦ ↓
Trees and ground cover Donahue et al. (‘11) ° ~
Gilstad-Hayden (‘15) ° ↓
Kondo et al. (‘17-A) † ↓
Kuo et al. (‘01) † ↓
Li (‘08) ° ~
Lim (‘05) ° ~
Schusler et al. (‘18) ° ~
Snelgrove et al. (‘04) ° ↓
Deng (‘15) ° ~
Donovan et al. (‘12) ° ↓
Wolfe et al. (‘12) ° ↓
Troy et al. (‘12) ° ↓
Troy et al. (‘16) ° ↓
Kondo et al. (‘17-B) † ↓
Undeveloped green areas Sparks (‘11) ° ~ Kondo et al. (‘15) Δ ~

Study Design: ° Correlational, † Quasi-experimental (pre-post or control group); Δ Greening intervention; ♦ Included a qualitative component; Findings: ↓ Negative relationship between green space and crime; ↑ Positive relationship between green space and crime; ~ Inconclusive or no significant relationship found; Strictly qualitative studies excluded from this matrix but included in Appendix A.