| Description |
x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Definition of situational prevention ; Defensible space, CPTED and problem-oriented policing ; Rational choice, environmental criminology ... ; The twelve techniques of situational prevention ; Issues of philosophy, politics and policy ; Implementation difficulties ; The selection of case studies / Ronald V. Clarke -- Curbside deterrence? / John F. Decker -- Steering column locks and car theft / Pat Mayhew [and others] -- Preventing post office robberies in London: effects and side effects / Paul Ekblom -- Less telephone vandalism: how did it happen? / Dennis Challinger -- Developing more effective strategies for curbing prostitution / Roger Matthews -- Reducing theft from shopping bags in city center markets / Barry Poyner and Barry Webb -- Cruising Cooper Street / John Bell and Barbara Burke -- Macro measures against crime, the example of check forgeries / Johannes Knutsson and Eckart Kuhlhorn -- Deterring obscene phone callers: the New Jersey experience / Ronald V. Clarke -- The halo effect: psychological deterrence of electronic security systems / Mary Jane Scherdin -- The British Columbia transit fare evasion audit / Scott DesChamps |
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The care of public transport in the Netherlands / Henk van Andel -- Thefts from vehicles in shipyard parking lots / John Eck and William Spelman -- Situational crime prevention in two parking facilities ; Video cameras and bus vandalism / Barry Poyner -- Preventing convenience store robbery through environmental design / Ronal d. Hunter and C. Ray Jeffrey -- Crime prevention and commercial burglary / David B. Griswold -- Exact fare on buses / Jan M. Chaiken [and others] -- Preventing burglary on a British public housing estate / Ken Pease -- Operation identification, or the power of publicity / Gloria Laycock -- Subway graffiti in New York City ... / Maryalice Sloan Howard and George L. Kelling -- From the Panoptican to Disney World, the development of discipline / Clifford D. Shearing and Phillip C. Stenning |
| Analysis |
Crime prevention Case studies |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
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Case studies |
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Crime prevention |
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Statistics |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-268) and indexes |
| Subject |
Crime prevention -- Case studies.
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| Author |
Clarke, R. V. G.
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| LC no. |
91043240 |
| ISBN |
0911577211 (paperback) |
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091157722X (hard cover) |
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