Key Publications

A Review of Street Crime in the Metropolitan Police District 1990

Street crime rose fast in the late 1980s and continues to be a problem.   In 1988 the Metropolitan Police commissioned a review of street crime    in the Metropolitan District, with a view to developing better targeted   crime responses

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/cpu44bf.pdf – size 15.4K

Contents

• Analysis of offender and victim profiles
• Type of property stolen
• Times and location of offences
• Suggested solutions
• The Brixton experience

The Prevention of Robbery at Building Society Branches 1988

Claire Austin CRIME PREVENTION UNIT: PAPER 14 LONDON: HOME OFFICE Editor: Kevin Heal Home Office Crime Prevention Unit 50 Queen Anne’s Gate London SW1H 9AT © Crown Copyright …

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/fcpu14.pdf – size 120.8K

Contents

• Attacks on building society branches
• The vulnerability of branches
• The prevention of robbery
• Discussion
• References

Preventing Robberies in Sub-Post Offices 1993:

Preventing Robberies at Sub-Post Offices: an evaluation of a security initiative Paul Ekblom CRIME PREVENTION UNIT: PAPER 9 LONDON: HOME OFFICE Editor: John Webster Home Office Crime Prevention Unit 50 Queen Anne’s Gate …

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/fcpu9.pdf – size 361.3K

Contents

• Was there a real change in robbery rates?
• What proportion of the fall can be attributed to Post Office action?
• What were the side effects of the security initiative?
• Cost effectiveness
• Next moves for the Post Office
• Final points
• Appendix 1 Choice of indicators for the background fall, and calculation of the estimates of the fall in robberies due to the security initiative
• Appendix 2 Interpreting the pattern of falls shown by the various methods of attack

THE PREVENTION OF STREET ROBBERY 1993

THE PREVENTION OF STREET ROBBERY: MARY BARKER JANE GERAGHTY BARRY WEBB T`OM KEY POLICE RESEARCH GROUP CRIME PREVENTION UNIT SERIES PAPER NO. 44 LONDON: HOME OFFICE POLICE DEPARTMENT Editor: Gloria Laycock Home Office Police Research …

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/fcpu44.pdf – size 260.7K

Contents

• Patterns of street robbery in London
• The nature of street crime in London
• Interviews with street robbers and street robbery victims
• Sampling procedure
• The interviews
• Description of offender sample
• Description of victim sample
• Description of offences
• Issues raised by the interview data
• The prevention of street robbery: a strategic approach
• The policing of street robbery
• Preventive social programmes
• Educational initiatives
• Crime prevention publicity and the potential for opportunity reduction

A Comparative Evaluation of Operation Eagle Eye 1998

Crime Detection and Prevention Series Paper 87 Janet E. Stockdale Peter J. Gresham Tackling Street Robbery: A Comparative Evaluation of Operation Eagle Eye 11670 paper 87 cover 27/3/98

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/fcdps87.pdf – size 1822.4K

Contents

• Strategies for tackling street robbery
• Strategy implementation
• Intelligence and proactivity
• Investigation and identification
• Statistical performance indicators
• Force comparisons
• Street robbery in the MPS
• Other offences
• Stop and search
• Overview
• Does Eagle Eye work?

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/fcdps87.pdf

Summary Document

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/cdp87bf.pdf

Commercial Robbery

Contents

• Why do offenders choose to commit robbery?
• What sort of planning is involved and how are targets chosen?
• What do offenders think about common security measures and how to get around them?
• How do robbers weigh up the chances of getting caught and how do they view the prospect of imprisonment?
• Why do robbers carry weapons and when do they use them?

Dr. Martin Gill is a Director of the Scarman Centre at Leicester University and is senior lecturer in crime and security management. No direct website for the publication is available but the book can be ordered from the publishers at the web site below:

http://www.fedpress.aust.com/Blackstone/Books/Gill.html

A review of Street Lighting Evaluations: Crime Reduction Effects 1999

(An extract from Crime Prevention Studies Volume 10, pp. 47-76)

By Professor Ken Pease, University of Huddersfield

'Our aim should now be to use context-appropriate lighting schemes as part of a full repertoire of crime reduction tactics. ……..The provisions of the British Crime and Disorder Act 1998 constitute a potential vehicle for lighting programmes operating within crime reduction schemes generally.'

Contents

• Precisely targeted increases in street lighting generally have crime reduction effects.
• More general increases in street lighting seem to have crime prevention effects
• Even untargeted increases in crime prevention generally make residents less fearful of crime
• In the most recent studies, street lighting improvements are associated with crime reductions in the daytime as well as at night
• The debate about lighting effects has served to preclude a more refined analysis of the means by and circumstances in which lighting might reduce crime.

This link provides details on all of the Crime Prevention Studies Papers.

www.criminaljusticepress.com