Petrol Service Stations as Victims of Crime: Their Risks and VulnerabilitiesCrime Prevention and Community Safety - Tập 6 - Trang 31-41 - 2004
Natalie Taylor
While research into crimes against specific business sectors has begun to grow in recent years, differences in the experience of crime between individual types of business within a sector may remain obscured. This is problematic because it can result in an averaging effect and may mask real differences in levels of crime. This paper builds on recent findings concerning the nature and extent of cri...... hiện toàn bộ
CCTV: The French controversyCrime Prevention and Community Safety - - 2011
Laurent Mucchielli
The article discusses the French government support for the introduction of CCTV as a major means of crime prevention, while at the same time cutting back on funding for the police. The article argues that there is considerable evidence to suggest that this policy will be ineffective in limiting crime. Furthermore, the way in which the French government provides financial support for CCTV means th...... hiện toàn bộ
Repeat victimisation and the crime drop: evidence from JapanCrime Prevention and Community Safety - - Trang 1-15 - 2024
Ai Suzuki, Aiden Sidebottom, Richard Wortley, Takahito Shimada
It is well-established that some people and places are repeat victims of crime. It is equally well-established that crime in many countries has fallen considerably in recent decades—the so-called ‘international crime drop’. What is less clear is the relationship between repeat victimisation and the crime drop, and whether reductions in crime have produced a more or less equitable distribution of c...... hiện toàn bộ
DNA and the Active Criminal PopulationCrime Prevention and Community Safety - Tập 5 - Trang 7-12 - 2003
Dick Leary, Ken Pease
Analysis of rates of submission of crime scene samples from one police force area and of matches with offender DNA samples already on the national database demonstrates, first, an increasing rate of submission, second, a steady state of matching in the West Midlands force during the period studied, at 58 per cent, and third, a reasonable linear fit between number of samples and number of matches, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predicting online safety behaviourCrime Prevention and Community Safety - Tập 15 - Trang 48-64 - 2013
Sarah Burns, Lynne Roberts
A widely promoted preventative measure against becoming a victim of cybercrime is the control of personal information online; however, little is known about what predicts the use of this type of protective safety behaviour. This study examines the utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in predicting online protective behaviours. Participants (N=150) completed measures of online privacy attitud...... hiện toàn bộ
Examining the influence of emotional arousal and scam preventive messaging on susceptibility to scamsCrime Prevention and Community Safety - Tập 22 - Trang 313-330 - 2020
Hui Ying Lu, Stephanie Chan, Whistine Chai, Shi Mian Lau, Majeed Khader
With the increase in scams globally and the elusive methods of perpetrators, law enforcement agencies have turned to public education and awareness programs to decrease the number of scam victims. This has also raised a need to look into the psychology of scams and how they can be prevented. Emotional arousal has been shown to hinder cognitive decision-making processes in scam victims, subsequentl...... hiện toàn bộ