Crime Prevention in the 21st Century: Insightful Approaches for Crime Prevention Initiatives

396 Pages·2017·11.61 MB·English

Benoit Leclerc · Ernesto U. Savona
Editors
Crime
Prevention
in the 21st
Century
Insightful Approaches for Crime
Prevention Initiatives
Crime Prevention in the 21st Century

Benoit Leclerc • Ernesto U. Savona
Editors
Crime Prevention
in the 21st Century
Insightful Approaches for Crime Prevention
Initiatives
Editors
Benoit Leclerc Ernesto U. Savona
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Università Cattolica del Sacro
Griffi th University Cuore-Transcrime
Brisbane , QLD , Australia Milano , Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-27791-2 ISBN 978-3-319-27793-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27793-6
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the contributors to this volume for assisting in the peer
review process of the manuscripts included in this volume. We would also like to
thank Peter Bell, Rick Brown, Jesse Cale, Ron Clarke, Marcus Felson, Mike
Maxfi eld, Carlo Morselli, Janet Ransley, Danielle Reynald, and Clifford Shearing
for their assistance in the peer review process.
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Contents
1 Crime Prevention in the Twenty-First Century ................................... 1
Benoit Leclerc and Ernesto U. Savona
Part I The Offenders’ Perspective on Crime Prevention
2 Learning from the Offenders’ Perspective on Crime Prevention ....... 9
Scott Jacques and Elizabeth Bonomo
3 Learning About Crime Prevention from Aborted Crimes:
Intrapersonal Comparisons of Committed
and Aborted Robbery ............................................................................. 19
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Wim Bernasco
4 Learning from Offenders: Some Iatrogenic Effect
of Crime Prevention Measures .............................................................. 35
Martin Gill
Part II Crime Script Analysis
5 Script Analysis and the SCRIPT Acronym .......................................... 49
Benoit Leclerc
6 An Examination of Sexual Offenses Against Women
by Acquaintances: The Utility of a Script Framework
for Prevention Purposes.......................................................................... 59
Yi-Ning Chiu and Benoit Leclerc
7 Expanding the Script Analytic Approach Using Victim
Narratives: Learning About Robberies of Taxi Drivers
from the Drivers Themselves ................................................................. 77
Martha J. Smith
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Part III Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis
8 Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis ................................................... 101
Michael Townsley
9 Mapping Crime Prevention: What We Do and Where
We Need to Go ......................................................................................... 113
Martin A. Andresen
Part IV Social Network Analysis
10 Social Network Analysis and Crime Prevention .................................. 129
Giulia Berlusconi
11 Using Social Network Analysis to Design Crime Prevention
Strategies: A Case Study of Methamphetamine Manufacture
and Trafficking ........................................................................................ 143
David A. Bright
12 Uncovering the Social Pecking Order in Gang Violence ..................... 165
Jasmin Randle and Gisela Bichler
13 Static and Dynamic Approaches of a Drug Trafficking Network ...... 187
Andrea Giménez-Salinas Framis and Sonia Fernández Regadera
Part V Agent-Based Modelling
14 Formal Models of the Crime Event: Agent- Based Modelling
in Support of Crime Prevention ............................................................ 215
Daniel Birks
15 Investigating Prevention by Simulation Methods ................................ 235
Charlotte Gerritsen and Henk Elffers
Part VI Crime-Proofi ng Legislations
16 Proofing Legislation Against Crime as Situational
Prevention Measure ................................................................................ 247
Ernesto U. Savona
17 Crime Proofing of Legislation in Practice: The Case
of the 2014 EU Tobacco Products Directive .......................................... 275
Stefano Caneppele
18 A New Victorian Era: Getting Crime Out of Commercial Sex .......... 293
Adam Masters and Adam Graycar
Part VII Technologies of Crime Prevention
19 Technology, Opportunity, Crime and Crime Prevention:
Current and Evolutionary Perspectives ................................................ 319
Paul Ekblom
Contents ix
20 Passive WiFi Radar: A New Technology for Urban
Area Surveillance .................................................................................... 345
Kevin Chetty and Karl Woodbridge
21 Micro UAV Crime Prevention: Can We Help Princess Leia? ............. 359
Matthew Ritchie , Francesco Fioranelli , and Hervé Borrion
22 Technology for Crime and Crime Prevention:
A Supply Side Analysis ........................................................................... 377
Graham Farrell and Nick Tilley
Index ................................................................................................................. 389