Download or read book Understanding and Preventing Car Theft written by Michael G. Maxfield and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thefts of and from autos are among the most commonly reported crimes, and they account for the highest losses among property crimes that target individuals (except for arson). But according to this new book, recent initiatives in the U.S., Europe and Australia have proven effective or are showing promise in preventing car theft.

Download or read book Vehicle Crime Reduction written by Joanna Sallybanks and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reducing Vehicle Crime written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2005 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Home Office is on track to meet its 199 target of reducing vehicle crime by 30 percent over 5 years. The Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team, which brought together different organisations including the car industry, police academia, local and central government, set a strategy and took an active interest in its implementation. The initiatives covered areas such as improving vehicle security, safer car parks, improving policing practices, better regulation of the salvage industry, targeting of criminals and increasing the awareness of motorists. Despite the successes, the number of vehicle crimes still remains high (2.1 million thefts of or from vehicles in 2003-04) and other challenges need to be addressed to further reduce such crimes.

Download or read book Preventing Car Theft and Crime in Car Parks written by Susan Geason and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crime Prevention Studies written by Ronald V. Clarke and published by Criminal Justice Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine chapters in this volume of Crime Prevention Studies are organized into sections on crime analysis, evaluation, theory, and implementation. Crime analysis: Ross Homel and Jeff Clark examine the role of intoxication in violence at pubs and clubs in Queensland, and demonstrate the preventive impact of a local code of practice. A study by Zachery Fleming, and Patricia and Paul Brantingham explores the site-specific and situational characteristics of auto-theft in British Columbia, and the resulting implications for prevention. Ronald V. Clarke and Pat Mayhew assess the effect of parking patterns on car theft risk in Britain, and they offer recommendations based on their findings. Evaluation: Nancy G. La Vigne reports that installation of a high-security, computerized phone system reduced both costs and inmate violence at New York City's Rikers Island jail. Crime reduction lessons from an evaluation of walkway demolition at a London (UK) public housing estate are presented by Barry Poyner. Theory: Derek Cornish uses the concept of a 'script' to examine how events and episodes unfold in the commission of crimes, and discusses the relevance of this type of analysis to situational prevention. Rene B.P. Hesseling's review of 55 published articles suggests that displacement is not an inevitable side effect of crime prevention programs. Implementation: In light of evidence that the social and situational approaches to crime prevention are incompatible, Daniel Gilling assesses the implications for multi-agency crime prevention initiatives. Marcus Felson proposes creation of a Crime Prevention Extension Service to bring situational prevention and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design into more widespread practice.

Download or read book Approaches to Intelligence led Vehicle Crime Reduction written by Rick Brown and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fixing Broken Windows written by George L. Kelling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Download or read book Assessing the Police Use of Decoy Vehicles written by Joanna Sallybanks and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Don t be a Victim of Vehicle Theft written by Louisiana Auto Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Statewide Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crime Reduction and Problem oriented Policing written by Karen Bullock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem-oriented policing has been one of the most significant new approaches to policing and crime reduction in recent years, and in the UK significant funding was provided to a variety of projects adopting a problem solving methodology in both policing and crime prevention and reduction partnerships as part of the government's Crime Reduction Programme. This book aims to draw upon the main findings of this initiative, to provide an overview of the government's Targeted Policing Initiative as a whole, to describe findings about the adoption of a problem solving approach, and to indicate what was learned from efforts to address the specific problems targeted in the evaluated initiatives.

Download or read book Anti Car Theft Act of 1992 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opportunity Makes the Thief written by Marcus Felson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vehicle Crime Reduction written by Great Britain. Home Office. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. Policing and Reducing Crime Unit and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Designing Out Crime from Products and Systems written by R. V. G. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides the first comprehensive and comparative international overview of effective approaches to "designing out" crime from products and services. Prominent criminologists and scholars of design analyze the lessons derived from a wide range of successful design-against-crime initiatives worldwide, including (among many others): technologies that have dramatically decreased cell phone "cloning" in the U.S.; the fitting of immobilizers to prevent car theft; adoption of tamper-resistant product packaging; the redesign of banknotes to block counterfeiting; account verification technology to minimize credit card fraud; and the use of hard-to-shatter glass to reduce injuries in bar brawls.

Download or read book Designing for Vehicle Security written by Dean Southall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home Office written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the success of the Home Office's policy of crime reduction in regard of vehicle theft. It sets out 12 conclusions and recommendations among them are: that the Committee believes that the Home Office should seek to raise public awareness of its' Car Theft Index and other data on the relative security of different makes and models of vehicles, perhaps by developing a Home Office standard; the Home Office will need to promote, with manufacturers, the development and installation of a new vehicle security measures arising from technological advances; data on car jacking and similar serious car crime incidents should be collated so the police can develop anti-crime strategies; the Home Office should encourage police forces to publicise car parks that are part of the Safer Car Parking Scheme; police detection rates for vehicle crime is low, with only 6% of thefts from vehicles and 13% of thefts of vehicles having been solved, the Committee wants the Home Office to encourage the police to raise detection rates; currently there are some 950,000 vehicles which are not registered or taxed, the Committee recommends the need for an accurate registration database to be kept by the DVLA.