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Hndbck Crm Prev AW 30/7/05 2:53 pm Page 1 Handbook Crime Prevention of a H Handbook n a of Community Safety d n and d C b Nick Tilley o Edited by o Crime Prevention m o and ‘Preventing crime and increasingly community safety has never been higher on the political or professional radar. This Handbook is very timely and very comprehensive – just what police officers, mk policy makers, students, community safety partnerships and communities need to guide good decisions and give clear insights in a complex field.’ uo Peter Neyroud (Chief Constable of Thames Valley and Vice President of the Association of nf Community Safety Chief Police Officers) i tC ‘This Handbook contains chapters by many stars in the field. These are excellent writers with y something unique to say.’ r Professor Marcus Felsen (Rutgers University) i Sm ‘This wide-ranging and impressive book provides an excellent and timely contribution to our a understanding of an important and growing field. It will be an indispensable guide and resource for e students of, and all those interested in, crime prevention and community safety. f e Professor Adam Crawford (University of Leeds) P t This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative and wide-ranging account of the background, yr theory and practice of crime prevention and community safety. It will be essential reading for e anybody with interests in this field, and will be the major work of reference on this subject for the v many people engaged in the practice, study or teaching of crime prevention and community safety. Edited by e This Handbook provides a detailed overview of the main theories and perspectives informing crime n prevention policy and practice, and contains chapters covering the means and methods used in Nick Tilley crime prevention, and how these are applied in practice to the main types of crime. Finally, the t book explores the preventive process itself, looking at analysis, decision-making, evaluation and the i o role of partnerships in crime prevention. n The editor Nick Tilley is Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University and Visiting Professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London. He was seconded to the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate as a research consultant for 11 years from N 1993, and is the author of eight books and more than a hundred reports, book chapters and journal articles. His research interests lie in policing, crime prevention and programme evaluation icE methodology. kd ite Also available from Willan Publishing Td il b Handbook of Policing, edited by Tim Newburn ISBN 1-84392-019-0 ly e y www.willanpublishing.co.uk Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety Edited by Nick Tilley Published by Willan Publishing Culmcott House Mill Street, Uffculme Cullompton, Devon EX15 3AT, UK Tel: +44(0)1884 840337 Fax: +44(0)1884 840251 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.willanpublishing.co.uk Published simultaneously in the USA and Canada by Willan Publishing c/o ISBS, 920 NE 58th Ave, Suite 300 Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, USA Tel: +001(0)503 287 3093 Fax: +001(0)503 280 8832 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.isbs.com © Editor and contributors 2005 The rights of the editor and contributors to be identified as the authors of this book have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers or a licence permitting copying in the UK issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. ISBN 1-94392-146-4 paperback ISBN 1-84392-147-2 hardback British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Project management by Deer Park Productions, Tavistock, Devon Typeset by GCS, Leighton Buzzard, Beds Printed and bound by T.J. International, Padstow, Cornwall Contents Contents List of abbreviations ix Notes on contributors xiii Preface xxv Part I: Background and Context 1 1 Introduction: thinking realistically about crime prevention 3 Nick Tilley 2 Crime prevention in context 14 Gordon Hughes and Adam Edwards Part II: Approaches to Prevention 35 Introduction 35 Nick Tilley 3 Seven misconceptions of situational crime prevention 39 Ronald V. Clarke 4 Developmental crime prevention 71 Ross Homel 5 Community crime reduction: activating formal and informal control 107 George L. Kelling 6 Progress and prospects in the prevention of repeat victimization 143 Graham Farrell 7 Science in the service of crime reduction 171 Ken Pease v Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety Part III: Means of Preventing Crime 199 Introduction 199 Nick Tilley 8 Designing products against crime 203 Paul Ekblom 9 Planning out crime: the appliance of science or an act of faith? 245 Henry Shaftoe and Tim Read 10 Crime prevention and system design 266 Nick Tilley 11 Complicity, trading dynamics and prevalence in stolen goods markets 294 Mike Sutton 12 Reducing the capacity to offend: restricting resources for offending 306 Martin Gill 13 Using publicity for preventive purposes 329 Kate Bowers and Shane Johnson 14 Youth diversion 355 Tim Newburn and Anna Souhami 15 Shifting and sharing police responsibility to address public safety problems 385 Michael S. Scott Part IV: Prevention in Practice 411 Introduction 411 Nick Tilley 16 The prevention of domestic burglary 417 Niall Hamilton-Smith and Andrew Kent 17 Preventing vehicl e crime 458 Barry Webb 18 Business and crime 486 John Burrows and Matt Hopkins 19 Violent and sexual crime 516 Mike Maguire and Fiona Brookman 20 Drugs and alcohol 563 Tim McSweeney and Mike Hough 21 The role of perceptual intervention in the management of crime fear 595 Jason Ditton and Martin Innes vi Contents Part V: The Preventive Process 625 Introduction 625 Nick Tilley 22 Analysis for intervention 629 Alex Hirschfield 23 Deciding what to do 674 Gloria Laycock 24 Evaluation for lesson learning 699 John E. Eck 25 Partnership and crime prevention 734 Daniel Gilling Glossary 757 Index 771 vii Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety viii List of abbreviations List of abbreviations ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers ANPR automated number-plate recognition APA Association of Police Authorities APACS Association for Payment Clearing Services ASBO anti-social behaviour order ATF (Bureau of) Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms BBBS Big Brothers/Big Sisters BCC British Chambers of Commerce BCS British Crime Survey BCU basic command unit BPD Boston Police Department BRC British Retail Consortium BVPI best-value performance indicator CAP (California) Civil Addict Program CAPS Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy CBRN chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear CCA crime-centred analysis CCO conjunction of criminal opportunity CCP Comprehensive Communities Program CDA Crime and Disorder Act 1998 CDRP Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership CDT child development trainer CEA crime environment analysis CJS criminal justice system CMOCs context, mechanism, outcome (pattern) configurations CPS Crown Prosecution Service CPTED crime prevention through environmental design CRARG Co-ordinated Response and Advocacy Resource Group ix
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