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Panic on the streets of London


The terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 resulted in a very large redeployment of police officers to central London boroughs. New research by Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt looks at the impact of this increased security presence on criminal activity in the weeks and months after the bomb blasts.


Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

October 2006     Paper Number CEPCP207

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Combating and preventing crime, Crime