In criminal justice literature crime prevention is a topic that is often dealt with in a very theoretical manner – in the ‘Broken Windows’ theory, for example – although this can sometimes lead to effective policies being made, e.g. ‘zero tolerance’ policing.  Text books such as ‘The Oxford Handbook of Criminology’ (available in the Centre library) are often a good starting point to find literature on such themes.  In the community approaches to crime prevention are also wide ranging, from Neighbourhood Watch schemes through to the Safer Scotland initiative.  

 
There are also a number of websites that may provide useful information and resources:  

• Home Office: Crime Reduction 

• National Crime Prevention Council (U.S.A.)  

• South Australia Crime Prevention Unit

Articles of potential interest include:

• Adding Social Context to Developmental Analyses of Crime Prevention (Goodnow, 2006)

• Distinguishing the City, Neighbourhood and Individual Level in the Explanation of Youth Delinquency (Wiejters et al, 2007)

• Taking the Developmental Pathways Approach to Understanding and Preventing Antisocial Behaviour (Lawrence, 2006)  

• Preventing Parolees from Returning to Prison Through Community-Based Reintegration (Zhang et al, 2006)

• The Impact of Community Disadvantage on the Relationship between the Family and Juvenile Crime (Carter et al, 2006)

• Schools, Pupil Behaviour and Young Offenders: Using Postcode Classification to Target Behaviour Support and Crime Prevention Programmes (Haden, 2007)

The Centre holds a small number of books on crime prevention, details of which can be found here.