Policing Mobile Criminality: Towards a Situational Crime Prevention Approach to Organised Crime (From Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes, P 193-212, 2010, Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke, and Nick Tilley, eds. - See NCJ-230763)

• NCJ Number: 230773
• Author(s): Stuart Kirby; Sue Penna
• Date Published: 2010
• Length: 20 pages
• Sale Source: Willan Publishing
• Publication Format: Book Chapter
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

This chapter examines how situational crime prevention techniques can be used to combat organized crime that has been affected by changing patterns of geographical mobility.

Abstract

Increased mobility, the flow of people, goods, services, and images across geographic borders, has been one of the most significant changes to contemporary society, and it has presented increased opportunities for organized, transnational crime. This chapter examines how these changing patterns of geographic mobility affect organized crime and the difficulties that these changes bring for conventional law enforcement activity. It discusses the relationship between mobility and organized crime and presents the results of a study that found that increased levels of mobile criminality have had a significant impact on the scope and variety of organized crime in England. The chapter also discusses the difficulties that arise from using an arrest-based enforcement model to combat organized crime and presents recommendations for moving towards a conceptual model of situational crime prevention to fight organized crime. References