Better Crime Prevention
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-40439-0 (ISBN)
Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics, and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and practice. It concludes with an agenda for continuous improvement. The book also demonstrates what is involved in doing theoretically informed and realistically applied social science orientated to reducing harms.
The focus throughout this book is on ethical and effective ways to reduce crime-related harms. There are chapters on how to target crime prevention efforts, crime prevention theories and frameworks, ethical issues in crime prevention, the practical conduct of crime prevention, evidence-based crime prevention, the politics of crime prevention, and the need for continuous adaptation in crime prevention.
Student readers will obtain an overview of, and capacity critically to engage with, crime prevention theory and practice. Policymakers and practitioner readers will be able to make better-informed decisions about what to do and how to allocate crime prevention resources. Social scientists interested in contributing realistically to harm reduction will better understand how they can go about doing so.
Nick Tilley has taught or conducted research at Coventry University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Minnesota, Griffith University, the Home Office, and, most recently, University College London. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (FAcSS) and has been awarded an OBE for services to policing and crime reduction. The Tilley Award for police problem-solving is named in his honour. He is Honorary Professor at UCL, Emeritus Professor at Nottingham Trent University, and Visiting Professor at Huddersfield University. He is the author or editor of 15 books and more than 200 chapters and journal articles, mostly to do with evaluation methodology, policing, and crime prevention.
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Preface
1 Introduction
Crime prevention knowing and doing
The focus of crime prevention
The ubiquity of crime prevention
Crime and crime prevention in human societies
‘Crime’ and ‘crime’ prevention in other species
Chapter outlines
2 Crime prevention examples
Vehicle theft
Domestic burglary
Commercial robbery
Gang-related shootings
Domestic violence
Drink-driving
Graffiti
Criminality
Conclusion
3 Targeting crime prevention: costs, harms, and concentrations
Costs of crime and cost-effectiveness
Harms and harm indexes
Concentrations
Victims
Places
Products
Facilities
Systems
Offenders
Overlapping concentrations
Conclusion
4 Crime prevention theories
What is ‘theory’?
Examples of theory in crime prevention practice and what we learn from them
Routine activities as a general framework for crime prevention theories
Theories for crime prevention focused on opportunity
Situational crime prevention
Complementary theories for crime prevention emphasising situations and opportunities
Theories for crime prevention focused on the supply, availability, and capacity of offenders
Opportunity theory and offender supply and availability
Adolescent-limited and lifetime-persistent offenders
Deficits and dispositions to commit crime
Turning points
Offender treatment
Enforcement
Other theory
Examples of potentially useful theories relating to crime
Examples of potentially useful general theories
Conclusion
5 Principled crime prevention?
The dialogue
6 Doing crime prevention
Private sector crime prevention: shoplifting
Data on the crime problem
Analysis and interpretation
Developing a preventive strategy
Evaluation
Continuous monitoring
Applying the problem-solving approach
Private sector crime generation
Public sector crime prevention
Crime prevention roles, responsibilities, and competencies
Doing effective and ethical crime prevention
Scanning
Analysis
Response
Assessment
Conclusion
7 Evidence-based crime prevention
Being realistic about evidence, evidence needs, and evidence use
Reading evidence
Evidence hierarchies and gold standards
The College of Policing Toolkit
The need for the synthesis of diverse sources of evidence
Case studies
Advice on accessing and using evidence
Discretion, evidence, and crime prevention decision-making
The creation of evidence
Conclusion
8 Politics of crime prevention
Proposal for a generic framework
Chicago: a case study
Politics of crime effective prevention: priorities, responsibilities, and interventions
Priorities
Responsibilities
Interventions
Politics of research production and use
Evidence analysis and use politics
Data politics
Conclusion
9 Better crime prevention
Improvements over the past half century
Maintaining improvement
What’s to be done to build improvement into policy and practice?
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 22 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 630 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-40439-7 / 0367404397 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-40439-0 / 9780367404390 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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