Coordinated Effort to Prevent Crime

Can Police Prevent Crime?

Editors' Introduction: Seeing and Being Seen to Prevent Crime

Cohen and Felson (1979) argue that for a direct-contact predatory crime to be committed, one of the three essential conditions that must converge in space and time is "absence of capable guardians," or, more abstractly, "absence of capable guardianship." Surveillance (or the appearance of surveillance) is part of capable guardianship. Clarke (1995) presents 12 "techniques" of situational preven...

A Model-Based Reasoning Approach to Prevent Crime

Within the field of criminology, one of the main research interests is the analysis of the displacement of crime. Typical questions that are important in understanding the displacement of crime are: When do hot spots of high crime rates emerge? Where do they emerge? And, perhaps most importantly, how can they be prevented? In this paper, an agent-based simulation model of crime displacement is ...

A 4-year effort to prevent retained items.

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