Burglary
Pushing Back the Boundaries: New Techniques for Assessing the Impact of Burglary Schemes
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This RDS On-Line Report's primary purpose is to present statistical analysis techniques and its main audience is those conducting in-depth evaluations of crime reduction projects. It presents a thorough description of new analytical techniques used to quantify the outcomes of a RBI Round 1 project in Liverpool and the details provided will enable replication of the methods for future evaluations.
Title: Pushing Back the Boundaries: New Techniques for Assessing the Impact of Burglary Schemes
Authors: Shane Johnson, Kate Bowers and Alex Hirschfield
Series: Home Office On-Line Report
Number of pages: 5
Date published: June 2003
The Liverpool project employed four different interventions:
Target-hardening
Alley-gating
Property marking
Offender supervision
The report presents findings on the impact of the Liverpool RBI project. The outcomes reported on include a dramatic reduction in burglary in sub-areas of intense implementation within the official boundary of the scheme. The report confirms findings from other RBI evaluations that situational crime prevention (such as security measures and alley gating) is an effective burglary reduction strategy in local areas.
As well as the reductions in burglary in the target area and a reduction in repeat victimisation, there was a small increase in the number of different properties burgled and also some crime switch displacement. Nonetheless, findings on burglary reduction (as detailed in Reducing Burglary Initiative: Early Findings on Burglary Reduction) show that across all the RBI Round 1 projects this displacement was not at the expense of the gains achieved in terms of crime reduction. The Liverpool results demonstrate the need not to rely solely on situational crime prevention - national initiatives like narrowing the justice gap, reducing re-offending and tackling drug related crime are important. Also, as projects like the Blackpool Tower project have shown, forces and CDRPs need to back these initiatives up with local offender related interventions. These findings also confirm the importance of the Crime Reduction Delivery Team efforts to take a more joined up approach rather than working in individual crime type silos. Also, the ACPO burglary and vehicle crime working groups are liasing over the production of good practice guidelines and other areas of work.
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