Understanding Crime Prevention: The Case Study Approach
About this ebook
This book contributes to improved practice in crime prevention, primarily through the lessons from successful projects. It provides an overview of current research in the field, and an exposition of some of the best case-studies from the past — including in the areas of property crime, fraud, violence and disorder — which demonstrate large-scale successes in prevention.
The book is a must-read for security practitioners, crime prevention and community safety officers, police, research and policy officers, politicians, and students and academics in the field.
Featuring an impressive list of contributors, Understanding Crime Prevention covers a wide spectrum of topics and approaches, designed to address crime problems from multiple angles. These include:
• standards in crime prevention
• policing, deterrence and incapacitation
• offender management and rehabilitation
• developmental interventions
• community-based prevention
• situational crime prevention
• crime prevention through environmental design
• security management
• physical security and people management, and
• the security industry.
About the author
Tim Prenzler is Professor of Criminology at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he was the foundation Coordinator of the Bachelor of Criminology and Justice from 2015. From 2008 to 2014 he was a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, based at Griffith University, where he managed the Integrity Systems Project and worked in the Frontline Policing Project. He was also a foundation member of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith, from 1991. His research interests include crime and corruption prevention, police and security officer safety, security industry regulation, and gender equity in policing. He has developed and taught courses in introductory criminology, policing, crime prevention, and criminal justice ethics and accountability.
