Highly prized is the truly productive crime prevention strategy, one that lightens the load on an overworked criminal justice system and, more importantly, reduces the number of victims. But to prevent crimes—especially in hot spots (high-crime areas)—police must determine where and when crimes are likely to occur. Drawing primarily on data collected in the United Kingdom, this Research in Acti...

This study aims to investigate the possibility of crime prevention through CCTV by analyzing the appropriateness of the CCTV location, whether it is installed in the hotspot of crime-prone areas, and exploring the crime prevention effect and transition effect. The real crime and CCTV locations of case city were converted into the spatial data by using GIS. The data was analyzed by hotspot analy...

South Africa's National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) has attracted surprisingly little academic interest. Where this occurs, attention centres narrowly on issues of implementation and operationalisation. This paper urges greater critical engagement with the policy driving crime prevention programmes. It suggests that the NCPS reflects (and effects) a change in the way crime is governed. A d...

The research explored the current scenario of crime in Botswana, and the current measures employed to help combat it, including usage of crime prevention clusters. Through usage of the quantitative approach, with the aid of questionnaire and interviews, the research found that, there is an increasingly growth of crime rate in Botswana, sustaining the literature findings. The research highlighte...

This paper addresses the topic of community crime prevention. As in many other areas of public policy, there are widely divergent approaches that might be taken to crime prevention focused on local neighbourhoods. In what follows four major forms of prevention relevant to the Australian context will be discussed, with particular emphasis being placed on an approach to crime prevention which enh...

developmental crime prevention: legal and juridical analyses of iran and england niyoosha ghahramani afshar [1] ghodrat-allah khosroshahi [2] mohammad reza shadmanfar [3]   abstract in a crime policy based on scientific doctrines, how to deal with children and adolescents’ conflicts is different from the delinquencies committed by adults. detection of crime and deviance, and the attempts to red...

The Home Office Police Research Group (PRG) was formed in 1992 to increase the influence of research and development in police policy and practice. The objectives are to sponsor and undertake research and development to improve and strengthen the police service and to identify and disseminate good policing practice. The Crime Detection and Prevention Series follows on from the Crime Prevention ...

This paper provides a commentary on the politics surrounding different crime prevention models and methods. It argues that conflating particular models with particular methods can unnecessarily undermine the acceptance of certain approaches as being appropriate "crime prevention" interventions. The paper presents three abstract models of crime prevention—conservative, liberal and radical—and di...