Designing Out Crime is an increasingly fashionable crime prevention approach, which is being implemented on a global scale (Cisneros, 1995) despite criticisms concerning the apparent lack of evidence to support this approach. This paper reviews the evidence and argues that although residual uncertainty remains, there is a large body of research, which supports Designing Out Crime as a pragmatic...

Crime generates external costs for individuals and social costs for nations. This chapter reviews the dominant theoretical paradigms that underlie national estimates of the cost of crime and reviews the empirical methodologies that have been employed in the extant literature. The chapter closes with a brief review of empirical estimates of the costs of crime to crime victims. In the United Stat...

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs–crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs–crime channel within a Becker–Ehrlich model of crime sup...

This chapter discusses the uses of a geographic information system (GIs) for tactical crime analysis. A tactical crime analysis GIs is built on the assumption that police managers and line officers need access to timely and accurate information for problem solving, community policing, crime prevention, and enforcement activities. The goal of using a GIs system is to address some of the shortcom...

The proposal is to use the concepts of artificial intelligence and digital image processing in surveillance systems to detect crime or crime related events, threats and notify officials accordingly. The system could monitor the visual and audio data obtained from the security cameras in-built with microphones and process them to detect crime or crime related events and notify the officials acco...

A popular perception is that immigration causes higher crime rates. Yet, historical and contemporary research finds that at the individual level, immigrants are not more inclined to commit crime than the native born. Knowledge of the macro-level relationship between immigration and crime, however, is characterized by important gaps. Most notably, despite the fact that immigration is a macro-lev...

The Australian and New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers' Group (ANZCP SOG) provides a national forum for senior crime prevention staff from each State and Territory as well as Commonwealth and New Zealand government to exchange and share information about crime prevention practices. The ANZCP SOG aims to: • BLOCKINsupport strategic thinking and policy development on crime prevention iss...

This paper examines the causality between income inequality and crime in Malaysia for the period 1973-2003. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze the impact of income inequality on various categories of criminal activities as well as to (2) analyze the impact of various categories of criminal activities on income inequality. Interestingly our ...

The collected papers in this volume address analysis for crime prevention. Analysis for crime prevention differs from analysis of crime prevention. Analysis of crime prevention stands back from and comments on what has been and is being done to try to prevent crime. It may be concerned with effectiveness as part of a broad agenda of social reform, but is not concerned directly to inform efforts...

OBJECTIVES We investigated associations of officially recorded crime and perceived neighbourhood safety with physical health, evaluating potential effect modification by gender. SETTING Nationally representative population-based survey in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS Individual-level data from 6995 New Zealand General Social Survey (2010-2011) participants with complete data on physical health...