scholarly journals Situational Crime Prevention in Sexual Offenses Against Women: Offenders Tell Us What Works and What Doesn’t

2020 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2091971
Author(s):  
Yi-Ning Chiu ◽  
Benoit Leclerc ◽  
Danielle M. Reynald ◽  
Richard Wortley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Perceived Effectiveness ◽  
Protective Behavior ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
What Works ◽  
Private Setting

This study examined the perceived effectiveness of situational crime prevention (SCP) in sexual assault as rated by 140 offenders convicted for sex offenses against women in Australia. Participants were presented with three scenarios and asked to rate the perceived effectiveness of SCP techniques relating to guardianship, victim self-protective behavior, and crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). Results indicate that the effectiveness of SCP methods was perceived to vary across different contexts. For offenses occurring in the private setting of an offender’s home, victim self-protective behavior was seen as most effective, followed by guardianship and CPTED. In public settings, although the perceived effectiveness of victim self-protective behavior remained the same, guardianship and CPTED were rated as significantly more effective. Further variations were identified regarding specific strategies. Findings highlight the nuances of offender decision making in different situations and environments, and provide the first empirical comparisons of SCP perceptions among sex offenders.

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?

scholarly journals Children's Vulnerability to Sexual Violence During COVID-19 in Kenya: Recommendations for the Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Stevens ◽  
James C. Rockey ◽  
Sarah R. Rockowitz ◽  
Wangu Kanja ◽  
Melissa F. Colloff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
The Future

This article discusses the latest research that reveals that children seem to be facing new risks of sexual violence in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic. The evidence suggests there have been changes in patterns of sexual offenses against children coincident with lockdowns, curfews, and school closures. In particular, emerging evidence from Kenya suggests that child victims are younger, more likely to be victimized by a neighbor in a private residence, and in the daytime, compared to pre-pandemic. We conclude that situational crime prevention strategies that focus on providing alternative safe venues to reduce offending opportunities must be a central part of a public health approach to reduce children's vulnerability during crises such as COVID-19.

scholarly journals Learning About Situational Crime Prevention From Offenders: Using a Script Framework to Compare the Commission of Completed and Disrupted Sexual Offenses

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana Cook ◽  
Danielle M. Reynald ◽  
Benoit Leclerc ◽  
Richard Wortley
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
Crime Commission ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Setup Phase

The collective knowledge of offenders is one of the richest ways to advance understandings of crime commission and effective crime prevention. Drawing on self-report data from 53 incarcerated offenders in three Australian states and territories, the current article presents an innovative method which, through a crime script framework, allows for a first-time comparison of completed versus disrupted sexual offenses involving adult female and child victims at each stage of the crime commission process. Findings (a) highlight the critical need to boost the efficacy of situational prevention in the crime setup phase of the sexual offense script and (b) showcase how incorporating a script framework in offender-based research can identify new directions for crime prevention

Defensible Space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert I. Mawby
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Defensible Space ◽  
Criminological Theories ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specific Influence

While the term “defensible space” is widely referenced in literature on situational crime pre vention and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, it is commonly mentioned in passing, almost as an historical landmark, with its relationship to more recent work assumed rather than rigorously examined. Yet, Oscar Newman’s work bridged the gap between criminological theories and preventive approaches in the pre-1970s era and the more grounded and policy driven approaches that are common today. Consequently, this article looks at the context within which Newman developed his ideas and revisits his core work. It then considers the initial response from the criminology and planning communities, which focused on the methodological and theoretical weaknesses that undermined what were, essentially, a series of imaginative, exploratory propositions about the influence of design on crime patterns. In this sense, it is clear that Newman both provoked and inspired further research into the relationship between urban design and crime, and indeed, between crime, crime targets, and space, looking at the specific influence of design, technology, social engineering, and so on. Terms such as ownership, visibility, occupancy, accessibility, image, and juxtaposition, which Newman used, are now incorporated into more sophistical theories of situational crime prevention. This article thus offers a reanalysis of defensible space in the context of later refinements and the application of Newman’s ideas to current policies.

scholarly journals Politi og arkitekters forebyggingslogikker: Forståelser av kriminalitetsforebyggende arbeid i offentlige rom

2020 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-174
Author(s):  
Marina Hiller Foshaugen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
Preventive Work ◽  
Prevention Approach

AbstractThis article focuses on crime prevention through architecture, environmental design and other situational modifications to public space. Today’s crime control is characterized by a continuously expanding focus on prevention and the proliferation of new contributions to preventive work. In the literature, the situational crime prevention approach is an acknowledged and well-known field in which strategies have been used to reduce crime in public spaces for decades. In Norway, however, this remains an area of crime prevention with little empirical data. The current study therefore attempts to fill this gap in Norwegian research. Based on interviews with architects and police personnel, the article explores these actors interpret and understand prevention through architecture, environment and physical design. The main aim is to examine approaches to crime prevention in public spaces in regards to safety, security, risk and social control.

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