Crime Prevention Studies will publish theoretical and empirical research on the subject of reducing opportunities for crime. Until recently, this topic was of relatively minor importance in criminology because opportunity was thought to determine, not whether crime occurred, but only the time and place of its occurrence. It followed that manipulating opportunities would result not in reduced cr...

We know a good deal about the kinds of conditions that promote crime. These include knowledge that criminals tend to come from backgrounds in which they have been exposed to disorganized communities, to dysfunctional and neglectful families, to schools that fail to provide them with successful learning experiences, and to biological challenges that may include neurological abnormalities or nutr...

This paper addresses the question of whether crime is a barrier to active living and if it is, what can be done about it? The authors introduce a theoretical model that addresses how crime might influence physical activity behavior. The core components of the model are: situational characteristics, crime and disorder, fear of crime or disorder, and physical activity. These variables are thought...

This chapter seeks to achieve three things, in decreasing order of importance: (1) To point out the basic phenomenon, i.e., the prematurity of many crime prevention effects relative to the point at which they would occur if they were the product of their presumed mechanism. This is termed anticipatory benefits. (2) To trawl published literature for instances of possible and probable anticipator...

Crime and migration has been a subject of debate over many decades. The present review of the literature attempts to synthesize the available evidence from statistics, crime victimization surveys, self-report surveys and other sources regarding offending and victimization rates among migrants and native populations, discriminatory decision-making by victims, police and criminal justice official...

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Information is an intangible organizational asset of enormous value in the information age. Information systems (IS) security technologies play an important role in protecting that information from unauthorized disclosure, modification, and use. As such, the factors that influence the effectiveness of IS security strategies need to be understood. The existing theory base for studying IS securit...

1 RETAIL CRIME: NATURE & TRENDS 9:15 International trends in retail crime & prevention practices, Joshua Bamfield, Centre for Retail Research, UK The aims of loss prevention, however articulated, are to protect the assets of the company, protect staff and customers, and to preserve the company’s reputation. Protecting assets and reputation requires the company and loss prevention manager to per...