Explaining and sustaining the crime drop: Clarifying the role of opportunity-related theories

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-41

  Farrell, Graham ^a   Tilley, Nick ^b   Tseloni, Andromachi ^c   Mailley, Jen ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime drop; Crime fall; Crime reduction; Security hypothesis; Situational crime prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849098010     PISSN: 14603780     EISSN: 17434629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/cpcs.2009.20     Document Type: Article

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