Crime Prevention Studies, Volume 1

This book series publishes theoretical and empirical research on reducing opportunities for crime. Until recently, this topic was of minor importance in criminology because opportunity was thought to determine not whether crime occurred, but only the time and place of its occurrence. However, after disillusionment set in first with the rehabilitation and deterrence of offenders in the 1960s and 1970s, and then with the massive incapacitation policies of the 1980s, the subject of reducing opportunities for crime will undoubtedly grow in importance in the coming years. The ten contributions in this volume include six case studies of situational prevention applications intended to block opportunities for committing crime and four more general discussions of theory and practice.