Overview

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics, and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and practice. It concludes with an agenda for continuous improvement. The book also demonstrates what is involved in doing theoretically informed and realistically applied social science orientated to reducing harms. The focus throughout this book is on ethical and effective ways to reduce crime-related harms. There are chapters on how to target crime prevention efforts, crime prevention theories and frameworks, ethical issues in crime prevention, the practical conduct of crime prevention, evidence-based crime prevention, the politics of crime prevention, and the need for continuous adaptation in crime prevention. Student readers will obtain an overview of, and capacity critically to engage with, crime prevention theory and practice. Policymakers and practitioner readers will be able to make better-informed decisions about what to do and how to allocate crime prevention resources. Social scientists interested in contributing realistically to harm reduction will better understand how they can go about doing so.

Full Product Details

Author:   Nick Tilley (UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367404369

ISBN 10:   0367404362
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of figures List of tables List of boxes Preface 1 Introduction Crime prevention knowing and doing The focus of crime prevention The ubiquity of crime prevention Crime and crime prevention in human societies ‘Crime’ and ‘crime’ prevention in other species Chapter outlines 2 Crime prevention examples Vehicle theft Domestic burglary Commercial robbery Gang-related shootings Domestic violence Drink-driving Graffiti Criminality Conclusion 3 Targeting crime prevention: costs, harms, and concentrations Costs of crime and cost-effectiveness Harms and harm indexes Concentrations Victims Places Products Facilities Systems Offenders Overlapping concentrations Conclusion 4 Crime prevention theories What is ‘theory’? Examples of theory in crime prevention practice and what we learn from them Routine activities as a general framework for crime prevention theories Theories for crime prevention focused on opportunity Situational crime prevention Complementary theories for crime prevention emphasising situations and opportunities Theories for crime prevention focused on the supply, availability, and capacity of offenders Opportunity theory and offender supply and availability Adolescent-limited and lifetime-persistent offenders Deficits and dispositions to commit crime Turning points Offender treatment Enforcement Other theory Examples of potentially useful theories relating to crime Examples of potentially useful general theories Conclusion 5 Principled crime prevention? The dialogue 6 Doing crime prevention Private sector crime prevention: shoplifting Data on the crime problem Analysis and interpretation Developing a preventive strategy Evaluation Continuous monitoring Applying the problem-solving approach Private sector crime generation Public sector crime prevention Crime prevention roles, responsibilities, and competencies Doing effective and ethical crime prevention Scanning Analysis Response Assessment Conclusion 7 Evidence-based crime prevention Being realistic about evidence, evidence needs, and evidence use Reading evidence Evidence hierarchies and gold standards The College of Policing Toolkit The need for the synthesis of diverse sources of evidence Case studies Advice on accessing and using evidence Discretion, evidence, and crime prevention decision-making The creation of evidence Conclusion 8 Politics of crime prevention Proposal for a generic framework Chicago: a case study Politics of crime effective prevention: priorities, responsibilities, and interventions Priorities Responsibilities Interventions Politics of research production and use Evidence analysis and use politics Data politics Conclusion 9 Better crime prevention Improvements over the past half century Maintaining improvement What’s to be done to build improvement into policy and practice? Index

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Nick Tilley has taught or conducted research at Coventry University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Minnesota, Griffith University, the Home Office, and, most recently, University College London. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (FAcSS) and has been awarded an OBE for services to policing and crime reduction. The Tilley Award for police problem-solving is named in his honour. He is Honorary Professor at UCL, Emeritus Professor at Nottingham Trent University, and Visiting Professor at Huddersfield University. He is the author or editor of 15 books and more than 200 chapters and journal articles, mostly to do with evaluation methodology, policing, and crime prevention.

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