In modern societies where fighting crime has a long history, establishing effective methods for crime prevention is of high significance. For this purpose, police departments worldwide undertake efforts to analyze past crime data. They aim to detect the most prolific crime areas and predict their development, in order to direct their prevention efforts. In parallel, scholars investigate possibi...

Security has always been the most basic human needs most relevant to the issue of crime as security nowadays has become one of the main concerns of sustainable urban management. The only place to prevent crime in the police force , judiciary and not too many, not just reasonable. To prevent the rise of crime in urban areas intuitive control methods (the place of the police force), social preven...

In this paper, a novel approach has been proposed to rank police administration units on the basis of their effective enforcement of crime prevention measures using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Clustering. The proposed approach will offer an effective mechanism not only to rank police administration units but also provide an evaluation tool to monitor the implementation of crime preventi...

Australia now faces the challenge of a genuine opportunity to work towards a truly national approach to crime prevention. Australians are witness to the growing maturity of a crime prevention sector which has reached a stage of development where there is: • a degree of sophistication about theorising and debates on crime preventionthe models, issues and problems; • a host of projects and initia...

That prevention is better than cure is a rather trite but nevertheless important axiom. It may be tempting, therefore, for those individuals, governments and groups charged with the responsibility of crime prevention to rush into any program that boasts a ’preventative’ approach. This paper is designed to alert those engaged in crime prevention policy-making, planning, implementation and evalua...

This article explores the research on community crime prevention, fear of crime, and alternative crime control strategies that go beyond those of traditional criminal justice agencies. The discussion focuses on the competing paradigms for prevention and control that have been tried over the past 20 years and relates that debate to the larger questions of crime causation and public attitudes tow...

Simple, almost obvious as this may be, the idea that crime is partly caused by physical environment has been a controversial one among criminologists. In my presentation I will argue that the controversy is based on a misunderstanding about causes and will review what is now a large body of evidence that the physical environment plays an important part in crime. I will then review current appro...

The growth of intelligence-led policing has placed even greater emphasis on the clear identification of crime hotspots as well as the choice of the crime reduction or detection strategy identified to combat a problem. Crime hotspots are becoming central to policing strategy in many locations, as they enable an operational commander to focus resources into the areas of highest need. This paper o...

Our paper investigates the relationship between neighborhood racial composition and perceptions residents have of their neighborhood’s level of crime. We use survey questions asking about perceptions of neighborhood crime from the 1978 Chicago Crime Factors and Neighborhood Decline study, the 1990 Testing Theories of Criminality and Victimization in Seattle study, and the 1994 Crime Changes in ...