Crime prevention has made rapid progress during the past two decades. This is especially true of situational crime prevention and problem-oriented policing. Each has accumulated a substantial body of evaluated practice and an extensive theoretical and methodological literature to support that practice. In fact, in recent years, the literatures of these two fields have converged, and there has a...

Anthony Morgan and Peter Homel Foreword | The Australian Institute of Criminology has spent a number of years working with crime prevention agencies across Australia reviewing large-scale programs that involve the delivery of varying activities directed at the prevention of crime. Taken as a whole, this experience has shown that, despite good intentions and aspirations to evidence-based practic...

http://www.aic.gov.au Adam Graycar Director Understanding of the origins of adolescent antisocial behaviour is important for two reasons. First, crime is a source of concern and cost to many communities throughout the world as well as Australia. Second, clear identification of the pathways to crime lead to the possibility of early prevention programs. This essay, based on a large longitudinal s...

INTRODUCTION Violence is a major public health issue, globally and on the African continent. This paper looks at Uganda and begins the process of identifying the factors that predict violence in that country. The purpose is to interpret the implications of the study results for violence prevention programs. METHODS The study includes the responses of 2 399 Ugandans collected in 2011 by the Fi...

Security is one of the most critical factors affecting the quality of urban spaces. Nowadays, most of these spaces have become merely pathways with neither social life nor sense of belonging to it. Insufficiency of public surveillance along with weak sense of control and surveillance results in spaces with high crime rate. In the late 60s and early 70s, high crime statistics in open urban space...

Third party policing’ describes police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties, such as landlords, parents, local governments and other regulators, and business owners, to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems. In third party policing, the police create crime control guardians in locations or situations where crime control guardianship was previously absen...