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  2. Crime prevention - Wikipedia

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    Tertiary prevention is used after a crime has occurred in order to prevent successive incidents. Such measures can be seen in the implementation of new security policies following acts of terrorism such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Situational crime prevention uses techniques focusing on reducing on the opportunity to commit a crime. Some ...

  3. Crime prevention through environmental design - Wikipedia

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    Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is an agenda for manipulating the built environment to create safer neighborhoods.. It originated in the contiguous United States around 1960 when urban designers recognized that urban renewal strategies were risking the social framework needed for self-policing.

  4. Environmental criminology - Wikipedia

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    Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is another practical application, based on the title of Jeffery's earlier publication, promotes the idea that situational factors such as the environment (poor lighting or design of circulation spaces [5]) can make crime more likely to occur at a particular time and place. CPTED measures to ...

  5. Rational choice theory (criminology) - Wikipedia

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    Rational choice modeling has a long history in criminology.This method was designed by Cornish and Clarke to assist in thinking about situational crime prevention. [1] In this context, the belief that crime generally reflects rational decision-making by potential criminals is sometimes called the rational choice theory of crime.

  6. Crime pattern theory - Wikipedia

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    Criticisms: Crime pattern theory being a branch of situational crime prevention, focuses on preventing crime by changing the environment of an offender. This perspective is criticized by social crime prevention for being 'anti-social' because it does little to help individuals prone to committing crime.

  7. Per-Olof H. Wikström - Wikipedia

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    His main research interests are developing a unified theory of the causes of crime (Situational Action Theory), testing it empirically and applying it to devising knowledge-based prevention policies. His work is internationally acknowledged, as demonstrated by his election as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2010 and a Fellow ...

  8. Gloria Laycock - Wikipedia

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    (2015). ‘Debuts and legacies: The crime drop and the role of adolescence-limited and persistent offending’ Crime Science, 4(16); 1-10. Tilley, N. and G. Laycock (2018) Developing a knowledge base for crime prevention: lessons learned from the British experience Crime Prevention and Community Safety, (), 1-15 DOI 10.1057/s41300-018-0053-8

  9. Sameer Hinduja - Wikipedia

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    Hinduja is also the co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Bullying Prevention. [2] He is an international expert in cyberbullying , sexting , sextortion , online and offline dating violence , digital self-harm , and related forms of online harm among youth.