Better Crime Prevention

Better Crime Prevention

Tilley, Nick

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2024

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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?

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