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Crime Prevention Studies (vol. 1)
Ronald V. Clarke, ed.
(Cloth)
1993, 196 pages
ISBN: 1-881798-00-3
$53.50

This new book series publishes theoretical and empirical research on reducing opportunities for crime, according to the introduction by Ronald V. Clarke, the series editor. Until recently, this topic was of minor importance in criminology because opportunity was thought to determine not whether crime occurred, but only the time and place of its occurrence. However, after disillusionment set in first with the rehabilitation and deterrence of offenders in the 1960s and 1970s, and then with the massive incapacitation policies of the 1980s, the subject of reducing opportunities for crime will undoubtedly grow in importance in the coming years. The 10 papers in this volume include six case studies of situational prevention applications intended to block opportunities for committing crime and four more general discussions of theory and practice.
Barry Poyner’s review of 122 evaluations of crime prevention projects indicates that programs centering on “target removal or modification” – an indicator of opportunity reduction – enjoyed the largest number of successful outcomes, while “social and community services” programs had the fewest. David Lester’s review of research conducted in the past ten years provides evidence that limiting access to a preferred method of committing suicide or homicide had a significant preventive effect, more clearly so for suicide than homicide. According to Maurice Cusson’s chapter, the link between situational crime prevention and deterrence theory is found in the fear experienced by the offender in certain crime situations. Simon Field presents an economic analysis of the costs of auto theft and its prevention in the U.S.
In their experiment testing three methods of preventing shoplifting, David Farrington et al. report that electronic tagging of merchandise caused a lasting decrease, but store redesign and stationing of a uniformed guard did not. A case study by Barry Masuda describes an appliance store’s effective credit card fraud prevention strategy. Ronald V. Clarke relates that a two-thirds cut in fare evasion was achieved after the London Underground installed a new ticket issuing and collection system.
Kerri Carr and Geoff Spring discuss the positive impacts of Travel Safe, an initiative to reduce crimes on public transit systems in Victoria, Australia. A successful plan to reduce chronic violence at the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix is analyzed by Arthur and Elizabeth Veno. Michael Bourne and Ronald C. Cooke discuss the installation of speed cameras and other measures that helped reduce road traffic collisions in Victoria, Australia.

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