development of cities and situational crime prevention

Using Situational Crime Prevention Theory

Information is an intangible organizational asset of enormous value in the information age. Information systems (IS) security technologies play an important role in protecting that information from unauthorized disclosure, modification, and use. As such, the factors that influence the effectiveness of IS security strategies need to be understood. The existing theory base for studying IS securit...

Guilt, Shame and Situational Crime Prevention

This paper builds on Clarke and Homel's (in press) expansion of the situational crime prevention model, which includes new techniques for making the potential offender feel guilty or ashamed about their contemplated crime. In place of Clarke and Homel's single category of "inducing guilt or shame," two separate categories involving the manipulation of internal controls (guilt) and social contro...

Situational Crime Prevention and Co - Offending

The crime prevention literature often contrasts “social prevention” and “situational prevention.” Social prevention focuses on reforming individuals through social policies. Situational prevention seeks instead to reduce crime by altering the settings or conditions in which we carry out daily routines, and avoids trying to change offender dispositions. Yet offender dispositions are not their on...

Reducing Computer Fraud Through Situational Crime Prevention

Although computer fraud continues to be a thorn in the side of many organizations, fresh perspectives to addressing this type of crime are rare. This paper advances a preventive approach which reduces those criminal opportunities that permit computer fraud to take place. The construction of crime specific opportunity structures, which enable the relevant parties to conceptualize the fraud envir...

Safer Cities: Greater Johannesburg Crime Prevention Strategy

Acknowledgement The development of the Safer Cities: Greater Johannesburg strategy document was funded by the public safety and emergency services cluster of the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan council. The strategy was based on a victim survey carried on in the metropolitan area by the institute for security studies. Further research and consultation for the strategy development, as well as ...

The Future of Crime Prevention: Developmental and Situational Strategies