Table 1.
All Violent Crime | Violent Crime (Not Homicide or Rape) |
Homicide Only | Gun Violence | ||
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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 ♦ ~ |
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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) † ↓ |
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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.