Policy Levels for Situational Crime Prevention

2018 ◽  
Vol 679 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-201
Author(s):  
Marcus Felson
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Auto Theft ◽  
Prevention Methods

An organizing framework is useful for scientific progress as well as the application of knowledge in practical situations. This article advocates supplementing the classification of situational crime prevention methods, proposing seven levels of classification for how crime prevention policy is applied. The seven levels are organized by distance from the criminal event, and examples of application are offered in liquor control and auto theft reduction.

scholarly journals Blockchain Security: Situational Crime Prevention Theory and Distributed Cyber Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Blasco ◽  
Nicholas A. Fett
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Secure Systems ◽  
Chain Component ◽  
Prevention Methods ◽  
Prevention Theory

The authors laid the groundwork for analyzing the crypto-economic incentives of interconnected blockchain networks and utilize situational crime prevention theory to explain how more secure systems can be developed. Blockchain networks utilize smaller blockchains (often called sidechains) to increase throughput in larger networks. Identified are several disadvantages to using sidechains that create critical exposures to the assets locked on them. Without security being provided by the mainchain in the form of validated exits, sidechains or statechannels which have a bridge or mainchain asset representations are at significant risk of attack. The inability to have a sufficiently high cost to attack the sidechain while mainchain assets can be withdrawn, along with the disconnect between the integrity of the sidechain and the value of the stolen assets are among the top disadvantages. The current study used a vulnerability analysis and theoretical mathematics based on situational crime prevention theory to highlight the attack vectors and prevention methods for these systems. Much of the analysis can be applied to any distributed system (e.g. blockchain network), particularly any supposedly trustless off-chain component. The equations developed in the current study will hold for any two chains that are bridged and pass value back and forth and provides evidence to suggest a public sidechain is likely not a viable option for scalability due to security concerns. Criminal strategies on blockchain networks in the digital realm are similar to criminal strategies in the physical realm; therefore, the application of criminology can lead to more efficient development and ultimately more effective security protocols.

scholarly journals A paradigm shift in policing: Crime reduction through problem oriented policing

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2032
Author(s):  
Murat Ozkan
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Crime Reduction ◽  
Environmental Criminology ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Problem Oriented Policing

The opportunity theories of crime regards opportunity as a root cause and focus attention on the crime rather than the criminal. In the practical crime prevention efforts, this theoretical framework paved the way for innovative policing strategies like problem oriented policing and situational crime prevention. Policy makers and practitioners accept the motivated offender as given and gather the efforts to prevent offenders accessing sufficient means and opportunities for a crime to occur. This paper describes the link between opportunity theories of crime and successful crime reduction efforts stemmed from them. It entails problem oriented policing and situational crime prevention techniques. Crime is not evenly distributed. It concentrates differently on places, offenders and persons. This paper then describes the fundamental discussion of crime distribution on hot places, targets, products, offenders and victims. Major works and findings in the field of environmental criminology is presented by describing hot spots and crime distribution, and crime patterns. The paper finally presents an evaluation of these approaches.

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

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
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