This paper provides a discussion of issues relating to public places, urban planning and community crime prevention. The first part of the paper examines the social nature of public space from the point of view of ownership, uses and users, urban design and regulation. The second part of the paper explores the application of crime prevention approaches and techniques to the planning and managem...

This paper builds on Clarke and Homel's (in press) expansion of the situational crime prevention model, which includes new techniques for making the potential offender feel guilty or ashamed about their contemplated crime. In place of Clarke and Homel's single category of "inducing guilt or shame," two separate categories involving the manipulation of internal controls (guilt) and social contro...

A. THE CONCEPTS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND PRIMARY PREVENTION ..................... 2 Definition Of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)............................................................................................ 2 Primary Prevention.................................................................................................................................... 3 B. EXISTING ...

he Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) announced in 1985 that it would issue grants for a “law enforcement–based crime prevention program␣.␣.␣.␣to demonstrate the importance of crime prevention as a major police activity of equal professional stature to patrol and investigative activities in the country’s major police and sheriff’s departments.”1␣ The initiative led at least two of the demonstra...

While essential, the process of developing and testing crime prevention strategies is currently an expensive and time-consuming process. In addition, there are some potential crime prevention programs that are either too costly or unethical to test empirically. What if we could test these strategies in an artificial world first? In a world of increasingly uncertain resources, simulation offers ...

The primary object and function of criminal justice system is prevention of crime or at least reduction of crime rate because we all want to live in peace and order. What sort of peace and order the society needs is beyond the scope of this paper. That perhaps may hint towards the real problem and the real solution to which the writer has pointed in the conclusion. That apart, it is no more ass...

Crime statistics are most frequently concerned with the incidence of crime (usually quoted as a rate per population), occasional statistics are concerned with prevalence (number or proportion of victims within the population) but the concentration of crime (number of crimes per victim) is rarely quoted. This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of all three indicators of crime, prevalence, ...

As crimes are becoming more sophisticated and unrestricted in nature, there is a growing demand for better technology to fight crime. Technology to detect crime can be classified into „hard‟ and „soft‟ technology. This paper further explores the methods used in USA to prevent crime and whether if such methods will be adaptable in a developing country like India. India has a notorious reputation...

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We explore the implications of endogenous credit market imperfections for the relationship between property crime and the process of economic development. In the initial stages of development, property crime rises as the opportunities to gain from illegal activities expand. In later stages, however, crime falls as capital market imperfections are overcome and legal activities become more pro ta...