Books in the Crime Science Series series

Offers a review of knowledge about bar room environments and their regulation. This book provides directions for the prevention of aggression, violence and injury in and around public drinking establishments. It shows why drinking establishments are high risk for aggression, and why some establishments are riskier than others.

This book examines alternative approaches to incorporating affect into criminal decision making and testing its influence on such decisions. In so doing it generalizes extant cognitive theories of criminal decision making by incorporating affect into the decision process. In two conceptual and ten empirical chapters it is carefully argued how affect influences criminal decisions alongside rational and cognitive considerations. The empirical studies use a wide variety of methods ranging from interviews and observations to experimental approaches and questionnaires, and treat crimes as diverse as street robbery, pilfering, and sex offences. It will be of interest to criminologists, social psychologists, judgment and decision making researchers, behavioral economists and sociologists alike.

This collection of case studies, by a distinguished international group of researchers, documents the application of a situational prevention approach to a variety of organised crimes, including: sex trafficking, drug smuggling, corruption, and fraud. The book will be of interest to those tasked with tackling organised crime problems, as well as students of criminology and criminal justice.

Rebuilding Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design explores and extends the common ground between CPTED and Situational Crime Prevention - another traditional approach in the field of crime prevention and security - via the latter¿s evolution into the field of Crime Science.

Drawing on the pioneering work of Nick Tilley and bringing together leading scholars from around the world, this book explores the value and legacy of crime policy evaluation research in criminology and crime science.

Considering different research methods, models of knowledge accumulation and the communication and presentation of evidence, this book contributes to policing scholarship policing by providing support for the evidence-based approach.

This book is dedicated to applied research into policing, its characteristics, challenges and opportunities. Despite growing demand for such evidence in crime prevention, remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research. This edition is designed to fill this gap, providing a valuable resource for those interested in academia-police collaborations. The book comprises a carefully curated selection of reflective contributions from some of the world¿s leading applied police researchers and some emerging talent.

This book is dedicated to applied research into policing, its characteristics, challenges and opportunities. Despite growing demand for such evidence in crime prevention, remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research. This edition is designed to fill this gap, providing a valuable resource for those interested in academia-police collaborations. The book comprises a carefully curated selection of reflective contributions from some of the world's leading applied police researchers and some emerging talent.

For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense, poaching, is explored in various contexts to determine what opportunity structures favor this crime and how situational crime prevention may reduce its prevalence. While the theoretical grounding of this volume is drawn from criminology, it is written for a broad audience of academics, practitioners and those interested in wildlife conservation.

This book gathers together leading scholars in the field of environmental criminology to honour the work of P&P Brantingham with new work on the geometry of crime, patterns in crime and crime generators and attractors.

This book gathers together leading scholars in the field of environmental criminology to honour the work of P&P Brantingham with new work on the geometry of crime, patterns in crime and crime generators and attractors.

Since the path finding work of Cornish and Clarke and other rational choice approaches to criminal behaviour, little work has been done on offender decision-making during crime in order to better understand the rationales behind offender 's actions and factors that may influence decisions made by the offender. Offender decision making and crime commission can be best highlighted by using crime scripts, which are designed to help identify every stage of the crime-commission process, the decisions and actions that must be taken at each stage, and the resources such as criminal cast, props, and suitable locations required for effective action at each step. This book brings together leading scholars in this area for the first time, not only to provide a synthesis of key research in rational choice and offender decision-making, but also to further help develop this field.

This work provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to Internet and e-commerce crime, exploring ways in which concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be applied in this new environment.

Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing opportunities for crime. This book documents the application of a situational prevention approach to various organized crimes such as sex trafficking, cigarette and drug smuggling, timber theft, mortgage fraud, and corruption of private professionals and public officials.

Opens up different ways of looking at different aspects of crime and crime control. This book includes chapters on such topics as white collar crime, violent crime, female crime victimisation, environmental criminology and the behaviour of psychopaths.

Problem-Orientated Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented policing projects. The volume describes in detail the case studies and explains the wider significance of each for effective, efficient, and equitable policing.

This text provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials. It provides a major statement of the nature and aspirations of crime science, and presents a series of case studies providing examples, in different settings, of the approach in action.

Talks about the attempts to introduce problem-oriented policing in Britain. Offering an examination of the implementation of problem-oriented policing, this book aims to shed light on the many obstacles, disappointments and doubts, as well as the achievements and prospects for problem-oriented, evidence-based policing and practice.

This text provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials. It provides a major statement of the nature and aspirations of crime science, and presents a series of case studies providing examples, in different settings, of the approach in action.

Ronald V. Clarke has made a significant contribution to the field of Criminology, his rational choice models and situational crime prevention strategies offering a practical solution to today's crime problem. In this unique collection of essays, Tilley and Farrell bring together leading academics from around the word to honour his work.

Ronald V. Clarke has made a significant contribution to the field of Criminology, his rational choice models and situational crime prevention strategies offering a practical solution to today's crime problem. In this unique collection of essays, Tilley and Farrell bring together leading academics from around the word to honour his work.

Drawing on the pioneering work of Nick Tilley and bringing together leading scholars from around the world, this book explores the value and legacy of crime policy evaluation research in criminology and crime science.

This work aims to provide an overview of the UK government's Targeted Policing Initiative as a whole, to describe findings about the adoption of a problem-solving approach, and to indicate what was learned from efforts to address the specific problems targeted in the evaluated initiatives.

Agent-based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development addresses the question whether and how we can use simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend and further develop theories.

This book brings together key contributions to environmental criminology from leading figures in the field to comprehensively define the field and synthesize its concepts and ideas. It offers a fresh and exciting approach to understanding crime.

Offers a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. This book emphasises the connections among approaches, and to show how, taken together, they provide a more complete picture of crime and criminality than each provides individually.

This book brings together key contributions to environmental criminology from leading figures in the field to comprehensively define the field and synthesize its concepts and ideas. It offers a fresh and exciting approach to understanding crime.

Integrates empirical and theoretical knowledge concerning child sexual abuse with developments in evidence-based crime and child maltreatment prevention, leading to ideas about understanding and preventing child sexual abuse. This book is suitable for those with interests in this field.