As the criminology of place becomes more refined, we become more inclined to put our knowledge into action. Police agencies and others concerned with the security industry have begun to use place-specific crime analyses, and then develop tailored responses to correct the problems of discrete locations. Often, these plans of action include the use of some type of situational crime prevention to ...

human domination over time and space and, consequently, globalization of crime has led to new opportunities of global nature to commit crime. globalized crimes occur in an organized fashion to bring profit to and serve violent purposes of criminals around the world, threatening human dignity, safety, and fundamental rights, compromising international security, and denying humans of their right ...

Crime maps have only recently begun to emerge as a significant tool in crime and justice. Until a decade ago, few criminal justice agencies had any capability for creating crime maps, and few investigators had the resources or patience to examine the spatial distribution of crime. Today, however, crime mapping is experiencing what might be termed an explosion of interest among both scholars and...

BACKGROUND Violence is a major public health issue, globally as well as in the African continent. This paper looks at Nigeria and begins the process of identifying the factors that predict interpersonal violence in that country. The purpose is to interpret the implications of the results presented here for violence prevention programmes in Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study is based on ...

The application domain of crime investigation and prevention deals with incomplete information from a broad variety of data sources and a complex structure of interdependencies of rapidly changing situations. The paper describes an approach of integration of multiple statistical analyses for recognition of crime information patterns in data warehouse.With multiple statistical methods we develop...

After the Second World War, the international trend in crime prevention was to address crime through the criminal justice system, which typically included a combination of vigorous policing, and a 'tough' justice system. This was based on an individualistic approach to crime prevention, which assumed that individual motivation plays an important role in the decision to commit a crime (Travis an...

This paper is a preliminary theoretical effort to define and operationalize success for a network of online crime prevention communities called Nation of Neighbors. We situate member communities with respect to traditional crime watch initiatives and online communities of practice. We determine five activities – reports, posts, replies, invitations sent, and invitation accepted – that directly ...

This chapter examines the concept of social control in discussions of crime and deviance. Discussions of informal social control identified the ways in which the management of deviance emerged and was embedded in social relations: it was unplanned, unconscious, automatic, private and often diffuse. This was then contrasted with formal social control, most closely associated with the criminal ju...

Clarke's classification of situational crime prevention techniques is designed to provide a conceptual analysis of situational strategies, and to offer practical guidance on their use in reducing criminal opportunities. It has developed in parallel with a long program of empirical research, conducted by many researchers, on the situational determinants and the prevention of a wide variety of cr...