Domestic Burglary Evidence Base
What works for domestic burglary crime prevention: strength of evidence
| This paper is primarily intended for practioners and those involved in making decisions on funding projects. The paper is also intended to highlight the intervention approaches designed to tackle domestic burglary that require further research. Part 2 of the paper should be of particular interest to practitioners intending to implement any of the interventions and gives information on the context of which each intervention has been tested. Title: What works for domestic burglary crime prevention: strength of evidence indicators |
The 'What works for domestic burglary crime prevention' paper is divided into two sections. Part 1 provides present evidence on a number of evaluated interventions aimed to reduce the levels of domestic burglary. The paper attends to compare various intervention methods and looks at whether they were cost-effective to implement.
Part 2 looks at each of the intervention methods highlighted in part 1 and details the good practice points and also includes any potential barriers to delivery.
The evidence in this paper has largely been generated from the findings of the Home Office's Reducing Burglary Initiative (RBI). The main objectives of the RBI were to:
- Reduce burglary nationally by targetting areas with the worst domestic burglary problems
- Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the different approaches
- Find out what interventions showed promising results and the conditions that were needed to successfully implement them
247 burglary reduction projects were funded, covering over 2.1 million households suffering around 110,000 burglaries a year.
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Last update: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
