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Barak Ariel is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has published extensively in the field of Social Sciences, with a primary focus on Sociology and Political Science. Their research contributions span various subfields, including Political Science and International Relations, Health, Clinical Psychology, and General Health Professions.

Their work addresses multiple topics, among which are:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
  • Traffic and Road Safety

Barak Ariel has published several papers in prominent academic venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime" (2021) in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Victims, offenders and victim-offender overlaps of knife crime: A social network analysis approach using police records" (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • "A simple checklist, that is all it takes: a cluster randomized controlled field trial on improving the treatment of suspected terrorists by the police" (2020) in Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • "Seeing is believing: the impact of body-worn cameras on court outcomes, a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Miami Beach" (2021) in Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • "Spatial distribution and developmental trajectories of crime versus crime severity: do not abandon the count-based model just yet" (2022) in Crime Science

The most frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • CrimRxiv
  • Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice
  • Crime Science
  • Policing An International Journal

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Barak Ariel's research activity. Frequent co-authors include Vincent Harinam, Kim Webster, Noy Assaraf, Benedict Linton, and Alejandro Mouro.

In addition to articles, Barak Ariel has contributed to book publications. Notable works include:

  • The Future of the Criminology of Place (2025), published by Cambridge University Press
  • Reducing the Risk of Workplace Violence Against Public-Facing Employees (2023), published by Springer Nature

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Use of Force and Citizens’ Complaints Against the Police: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;William A. Farrar;Alex Sutherland

  • Restorative Justice Conferencing (RJC) Using Face‐to‐Face Meetings of Offenders and Victims: Effects on Offender Recidivism and Victim Satisfaction. A Systematic Review

    Heather Strang;Lawrence W Sherman;Evan Mayo‐Wilson;Daniel Woods

  • Wearing body cameras increases assaults against officers and does not reduce police use of force: Results from a global multi-site experiment:

    Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

  • Are Restorative Justice Conferences Effective in Reducing Repeat Offending? Findings from a Campbell Systematic Review

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Lawrence W. Sherman;Heather Strang;Heather Strang;Evan Mayo-Wilson;Daniel J. Woods

  • DETERRENCE AND MORAL PERSUASION EFFECTS ON CORPORATE TAX COMPLIANCE: FINDINGS FROM A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL*

    Barak Ariel

  • “Contagious Accountability”: A Global Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Citizens’ Complaints Against the Police

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

  • A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime.

    Amy E. Nivette;Renee Zahnow;Raul Aguilar;Andri Ahven

  • Report: increases in police use of force in the presence of body-worn cameras are driven by officer discretion: a protocol-based subgroup analysis of ten randomized experiments

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

  • Short-term effects of restorative justice conferences on post-traumatic stress symptoms among robbery and burglary victims: a randomized controlled trial

    Caroline M. Angel;Lawrence W. Sherman;Heather Strang;Barak Ariel

  • “Soft” policing at hot spots—do police community support officers work? A randomized controlled trial

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;Cristobal Weinborn;Lawrence W Sherman;Lawrence W Sherman

  • The effects of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on police and citizen outcomes: A state-of-the-art review

    Jon Maskaly;Christopher Donner;Wesley G. Jennings;Barak Ariel

  • The next generation of court-mandated domestic violence treatment: a comparison study of batterer intervention and restorative justice programs

    Linda G. Mills;Briana Barocas;Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel

  • Leading an Experiment in Police Body-Worn Video Cameras:

    Paul Drover;Barak Ariel

  • Targeting Escalation in Reported Domestic Abuse: Evidence From 36,000 Callouts

    Matthew Bland;Barak Ariel

  • Police Body Cameras in Large Police Departments

    Barak Ariel

  • The Deterrence Spectrum: Explaining Why Police Body-Worn Cameras ‘Work’ or ‘Backfire’ in Aggressive Police–Public Encounters

    Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

  • Increasing Cooperation With the Police Using Body Worn Cameras

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel

  • Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against officers

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

  • Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops

    Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;Henry Partridge

  • An Integrated Theory of Hot Spots Patrol Strategy: Implementing Prevention by Scaling Up and Feeding Back

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Lawrence W. Sherman;Stephen Williams;Barak Ariel;Barak Ariel;Lucinda R. Strang

  • Domestic Abuse in England and Wales

    Matthew P. Bland;Barak Ariel

  • Report: Increases in Police Use of Force in the Presence of Body-Worn Cameras Are Driven by Officer Discretion

    Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

  • The Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Citizens' Complaints Against the Police

    Barak Ariel;Alex Sutherland;Darren Henstock;Josh Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence W. Sherman
Lawrence W. Sherman University of Cambridge
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi
David P. Farrington
David P. Farrington University of Cambridge
Jessica J. Asscher
Jessica J. Asscher University of Amsterdam
Anthony A. Braga
Anthony A. Braga University of Pennsylvania

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