This research investigated the association between Internet searches and property crime levels in the United States. States with the highest levels of property crime tended to have the highest levels of Google crime prevention queries for target hardening, surveillance, and formal and informal social control. In addition, levels of crime reduction were often greatest in states with more crime prevention queries and the magnitude of the reduction was often substantial. Findings from this research support the conceptualization of aggregated online crime prevention queries as a potential factor for understanding crime reduction strategies and overall changes in crime rate patterns at the state-level.

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追求安全：谷歌时代的犯罪预防

这项研究调查了美国互联网搜索与财产犯罪水平之间的关联。财产犯罪程度最高的州往往会针对目标强化，监视以及正式和非正式的社会控制而对Google犯罪预防查询的级别最高。此外，在有更多预防犯罪问题的州，减少犯罪的水平通常最高，而且减少的幅度通常很大。这项研究的结果支持汇总的在线犯罪预防查询的概念化，这是了解州一级犯罪预防策略和犯罪率模式总体变化的潜在因素。