期刊
CRIME PREVENTION & COMMUNITY SAFETY
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 24-41出版社
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
DOI: 10.1057/cpcs.2009.20
关键词
crime fall; crime drop; crime reduction; security hypothesis; situational crime prevention
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-22-2386]
- ESRC [ES/F015186/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Western industrialised countries experienced major reductions in crime for a decade from the early to mid-1990s. The absence of adequate explanation identifi es a failing of criminological theory and empirical study. More importantly, it means that none of the forces that reduced crime can confi dently be harnessed for policy purposes. Existing hypotheses relating to the crime drops are reviewed and found generally wanting. Many do not stand up to empirical testing. Others do not seem able to explain crime increases (such as phone theft and robbery and internet-related crimes) that occurred alongside the crime drops. It is suggested that the set of opportunity-related theories, or the criminologies of everyday life, present a more promising line of research. The ` security hypothesis ' is discussed wherein changes in the level and quality of security may have been a key driving force behind the crime drop, and an agenda of crime-specifi c research is proposed.
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