Crime Prevention as a Municipal Function

Crime Prevention: A Cautionary Tale

We know a good deal about the kinds of conditions that promote crime. These include knowledge that criminals tend to come from backgrounds in which they have been exposed to disorganized communities, to dysfunctional and neglectful families, to schools that fail to provide them with successful learning experiences, and to biological challenges that may include neurological abnormalities or nutr...

Crime Prevention Techniques and Crime Prevention in Turkey

Conceptually, security concept is always tend to expand its own limitations. Current global events, emerging new situations and resulting needs in this area often make the changes obligatory and inevitable. Today, the fight against crime and criminality follows a path which aims to identify and clarify the crime begining from the emergence of the criminal activity until the capture and detentio...

Introduction : Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention

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...

Prevention of Crime

environmental design and crime prevention

crime and the fear of crime are pervasive and endemic concerns in modern society and criminal justice systems are clearly failing to tackle both issues. cpted is an acronym for crime prevention through environmental design which asserts that the proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and an improvement in the quality ...