C hapter 2 presents the theoretical foundation for understanding how crime and disorder occur; it also details ways to reduce opportunities and prevent problematic activity, based on theory. This chapter links these theoretical concepts with crime reduction practice by police. As discussed in Chapter 1, the primary purpose of crime analysis is to assist police; the focus of this chapter is on “...

The fact that the volume of crime is related to the size of a jurisdiction’s population has been well established. The relationship between crime rate and population size, however, is less clear. Crime rate presents crime on a per capita basis, and is intended to adjust for population size so that comparisons can be made. In this article, the author first establishes the statistical relationshi...

Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce. This paper draws on data from a prospective cohort study (the Whitehall II study) to show a strong statistical effect of mental health and physical functioning on worry about crime. Combining with e...

In recent decades, crime levels have given increasing cause for alarm, bringing material and immaterial consequences that have still to be properly understood. Anti-crime strategies urgently need to be implemented in order to promote safe communities and contribute to their sustainable development. Crime needs to be taken into account during the planning process, as valuable components can be p...

Crime statistics are most frequently concerned with the incidence of crime (usually quoted as a rate per population), occasional statistics are concerned with prevalence (number or proportion of victims within the population) but the concentration of crime (number of crimes per victim) is rarely quoted. This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of all three indicators of crime, prevalence, ...

OBJECTIVES Adolescents do not achieve recommended levels of physical activity. Crime is believed to be a barrier to physical activity among youth, but findings are inconsistent. This study compares the spatial distribution of crime incidences and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among adolescents in Massachusetts between 2011 and 2012, and examines the correlation between crime and...

As crimes are becoming more sophisticated and unrestricted in nature, there is a growing demand for better technology to fight crime. Technology to detect crime can be classified into „hard‟ and „soft‟ technology. This paper further explores the methods used in USA to prevent crime and whether if such methods will be adaptable in a developing country like India. India has a notorious reputation...

OBJECTIVE Current knowledge regarding psychiatric disorders and crime in youth is limited to juvenile justice and community samples. This study examined relationships between psychiatric disorders and self-reported crime involvement in a sample of youth representative of the US population. METHOD The National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (N = 10,123; ages 13-17 years; 2001-2004) w...