Generating Ideas

The next stage involves generating ideas on how to tackle the priorities agreed. It is possible to intervene at many different points to reduce the chances of a crime taking place. For example, interventions may involve:

• Work with young people at risk of committing business crime

• Changes in the way business areas are designed or managed

• Increased surveillance

• Targeted enforcement

• Reducing the market for stolen goods.

Partners can produce a number of options based on their knowledge of the area and their awareness of their own roles and responsibilities within the community. In plotting the different options it is helpful to distinguish between long and short term measures and between those which relate to:

• offenders and/or those at risk of offending

• the victims and/or those at risk of victimisation

• the physical environment (including premises or type of goods)

• the social environment