NCJ Number
160730
Editor(s)
J E Eck,
D Weisburd
Date Published
1995
Length
357 pages
Annotation
This book explores theoretical aspects of crime prevention, research on crime prevention, and crime prevention approaches and methods.
Abstract
The first chapter examines the importance of places where crime occurs and considers neighborhood crime theories, the concentration of crime at particular facilities and locations, offender mobility, and offender target selection. The next four chapters focus on crime hot spots and criminal careers; crime prevention by individuals; illicit retail marketplaces used in drug, sex, theft, and illegal firearm offenses; and the definition and optimization of crime displacement. Subsequent chapters look at criminal careers and the commission of crime in public places, alcohol-related crimes, and physical and social correlates of fear of crime. Other chapters cover a multiagency response team approach to policing locations with drug problems, police investigations of serial violent criminals, "hot spots" of crime, the operationalization of theoretical concepts in field research, the use of computerized mapping in police operations, crime self-reports, criminality in space and time, and methodological issues and problems in measuring immediate spatial displacement. References, notes, tables, and figures