Imagination for Crime Prevention: Essays in Honour of Ken Pease

by Farrell, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781881798705
• ISBN10: 1881798704
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

The role of imagination in preventing crime, as exemplified in the career of British criminologist Ken Pease, is celebrated in this volume. Professor Pease's hundreds of published works include pioneering studies of repeat victimization, situational crime prevention, victimization surveys, crime displacement, predicting crime futures, crime science, and many other topics.In tribute to Dr Pease, colleagues and former students have contributed 13 chapters to this volume that build upon his groundbreaking research.

Table of Contents

Forword-Just say Pease Nick Ross Editors'

Introduction - Ken Pease (1943-), a prospective obituary

From crime prevention to crime science

Making offenders

Doing without knowing: common pitfalls in crime prevention

Sustainability versus safety: confusion, conflict and contradiction in designing out crime

Designing out crime: has section 17 of the UK's crime and disorder act 1998 been effective?

The Nottingham burglary risk index(BRIx)

Kings and castles, cavemen and caves: the impact of crime on male victims

Fear of crime, perceived disorders and property crime: a multivariate analysis at the area level

The Cambridge evaluation of the effects of CCTV on crime David P Farrington

Burglary prediction: the roles of theory, flow and friction

Risky facilities: crime concentration in homogenous sets of establishments and facilities

Repeat victimization of prison inmates

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