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A Short History of the England and Wales National Burglary Security Initiatives

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This chapter describes the history of national policy and practice initiatives attempting to reduce burglary in England and Wales since the 1980s. It will highlight the importance of major projects that were found to have reduced domestic burglary as well as lessons learned from approaches that have produced disappointing results.

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    These were developmental prevention; community prevention; situational prevention; policing, sentencing and deterrence; correctional interventions; drug treatment interventions.

Abbreviations

ALO:

Architectural Liaison Officer

BCS:

British Crime Survey

CDA:

Crime and Disorder Act 1998

CPDA:

Crime Prevention Design Advisor

CPTED:

Crime Prevention through Environmental Design

CPU:

Crime Prevention Unit

CRP:

Crime Reduction Programme

CSEW:

Crime Survey for England and Wales

DOCO:

Designing Out Crime Officer

PEP:

Priority Estates Project

RBI:

Reducing Burglary Initiative

SCP:

Situational crime prevention

SDP:

Strategic Development Projects

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Laycock, G., Tilley, N. (2018). A Short History of the England and Wales National Burglary Security Initiatives. In: Reducing Burglary. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99942-5_2

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