Make the Crime Seem Harder - Case Studies
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Many of these case studies can be found in their entirety on-line. If not, follow the links in the "Author" column to get more information about the publishers.
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| Control Access to Places Where Offenders Don't Belong - "Blocking Off Concealed Parking Areas" | Chambers, Ray W. 1988. Gainesville convenience store security measures ordinance: A review and analysis. Largo, FL: Assets Protection Systems Associates. (Cited in Bellamy, Lisa C. 1996. "Situational crime prevention and convenience store robbery." Security Journal. 7 (1): 41-52.) |
| Deflect Offenders Away From People Who Might be Victims - "Reducing Theft from Shopping Bags in City Centre Markets" | Poyner, Barry and Barry Webb. 1997. "Reducing theft from shopping bags in city centre markets." In Situational crime prevention: successful case studies, vol. 2 (ed. Ronald V. Clarke). Guilderland, NY: Harrow and Heston. pp. 83-89. |
| Control the Tools of Crime - "Preventing Credit Card Fraud Using Customer Photographs" | Masuda, Barry. 1996. "An alternative approach to the credit card fraud problem." Security Journal. 7 (1): 15-21. |
| Obstruct Offenders With Physical Barriers - "Preventing Robberies at Postal Counters" | Ekblom, Paul. 1987. Preventing robberies at sub-post offices: an evaluation of a security initiative. Crime Prevention Unit Paper 9. London, UK: Home Office.  |
