The Long Shadow of Heroes: Martyrs' Cemetery, Patriotic Education, and Street Crime

• In Event: Memory, Denialism, and Authoritarian Pasts

Brief Overview

Moving beyond formal-informal control, this study shows state crime reduction through embedding narratives in space. Martyrs' Cemetery Parks lower crime via patriotic education's implicit moral suasion, not coercion.

Author

• Jiajun Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology