Understanding Crime Prevention: The Case Study Approach

Edited by Tim Prenzler

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.

• About the Authors
• Preface
• 1. Crime Prevention: Setting Standards

Lyndel Bates, David Belsham, and Toby Miles-Johnson

• 2. Policing, Deterrence and Incapacitation

Jacqueline M. Drew

• 3. Offender Management and Rehabilitation

Mary Baker and Nadine McKillop

• 4. Developmental Interventions

Gabriel T.W. Wong and Matthew Manning

• 5. Community-based Prevention

Philip Birch and Tim Prenzler

• 6. The Evolution of Situational Crime Prevention

Tim Prenzler and Eric Wilson

• 7. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Evolution, Theory and Practic

Mateja Mihinjac and Danielle Reynald

• 8. Reducing Property Crime and Fraud: Twelve Case Studies

Tim Prenzler

• 9. Reducing Violence and Disorder: Seven Case Studies

Tim Prenzler and Mateja Mihinjac

• 10. Principles of Security Management

Rick Draper, Jessica Ritchie, and Tim Prenzler

• 11. Best Practice in Physical Security and People Management

Rick Draper, Jessica Ritchie, Eric Wilson, and Tim Prenzler

• 12. The Security Industry and Crime Prevention

Tim Prenzler and Rick Sarre