Product Description: This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more broadly.Chapter 5 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.

Product Description: Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine activity theory. It analyses the effect of post WW2 crime booms which triggered a universal improvement in security across the Western world...read more

Product Description: International trade in high value perishables has grown enormously in the past few decades. In the developed world consumers now expect to be able to eat perishable produce from all parts of the world, and in most cases throughout the year...read more

Product Description: This book is a tribute to the work of criminologist Professor Ronald V. Clarke, in view of his enormous and enduring contribution to criminology and crime science. Clarke is best known for his development of the theory and application of situational crime prevention, although he also played a major part in the establishment of the British Crime Survey, in discussions of evaluation methodology, and in improving the knowledge base and tools for problem-oriented policing...read more

Product Description: The role of imagination in devising creative approaches to preventing crime, as exemplified in the career of British criminologist Ken Pease, is celebrated in volume 21 of Crime Prevention Studies. Professor Pease s hundreds of published works include pioneering studies of repeat victimization, situational crime prevention, victimization surveys, crime displacement, predicting crime futures, crime science, and many other topics...read more

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Product Description: This book analyzes findings on repeat victimization, and explores their implications for prevention policy. Topics include: why repeat victimization matters; a cross-national comparison of repeat victimization rates; attitudes of repeat victims towards the police; repeat burglary victimization; detection opportunities and offender targetting; implications for crime control policy and problem-oriented poilicing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)