Situational Crime Prevention

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Russell Brewer ◽  
Melissa de Vel-Palumbo ◽  
Alice Hutchings ◽  
Thomas Holt ◽  
Andrew Goldsmith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention

Crime Mapping and Crime Analysis of Property Crimes in Jodhpur

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swikar Lama ◽  
Sikandar Singh Rathore
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Crime Analysis ◽  
Crime Mapping ◽  
Property Crimes

AbstractThis study is based on crime mapping and crime analysis of property crimes in Jodhpur. The property crimes which were selected were house breaking, auto thefts and chain snatching. Data from police stations were used to generate the maps to locate hot spots of crimes. The profile of these hot spots was analyzed through observations supplemented with interviews of police officers and public 100 cases of house breaking and 100 cases of auto thefts were further analyzed to understand the contexts which lead to these crimes. These contexts are in consonance with situational crime prevention theories. This study may help to understand the environmental factors which may be responsible for certain places becoming hot spot areas of property crimes in Jodhpur.

Situational Crime Prevention and Offender Decision Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiden Sidebottom ◽  
Nick Tilley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Prevention Research ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Satisfactory Account

This chapter focuses on situational crime prevention, a method for reducing opportunities for crime by manipulating the immediate environment. It begins by charting the origins and development of situational crime prevention. It then describes how rational choice was later added as the model of offender decision making to underpin situational crime prevention. Three questions are then considered: Is rational choice the only possible theoretical underpinning for situational crime prevention? Is rational choice a satisfactory account of offender decision making? Does rational choice need to be supplemented for the purposes of crime prevention research and practice, and if so, with what?

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