NCJ Number
153166
Editor(s)
R V Clarke
Date Published
1994
Length
261 pages
Annotation
This compilation of crime prevention studies is organized in four sections that encompass crime analysis, evaluation, theory, and implementation.
Abstract
The first section addresses situational factors and management practices that increase the risk of violence in and around Australian clubs and pubs; the incidence of auto theft in British Columbia, Canada; and the British Crime Survey of parking patterns and car theft risks. The second section examines the high costs of illicit inmate telephone use on Rikers Island, New York, and the impact of walkway demolition in a London public housing development on crime. The third section procedurally analyzes the nature of offending and its relevance to situational crime prevention measures and also reviews 55 published articles on crime prevention measures in which researchers specifically looked for evidence of crime displacement. The fourth and final section focuses on multiagency crime prevention in the United Kingdom and problems associated with combining situational and social crime prevention strategies. A Crime Prevention Extension Service is proposed to bring situational crime prevention and crime prevention through environmental design into more widespread practice. References, notes, tables, figures, and photographs