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Crime Prevention in the Twenty-First Century

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Over the years, a number of innovative approaches to learn about crime patterns for guiding and supporting crime prevention initiatives have been developed. In this collection we cover seven approaches: (1) offender-based research; (2) crime script analysis; (3) crime mapping and spatial analysis; (4) social network analysis; (5) agent-based modelling; (6) crime-proofing legislations; and (7) the technologies of crime prevention. Specifically, theoretical and empirical/applied contributions have been included for each approach. Theoretical contributions aim to introduce and explain the approach and discuss under which circumstances it could better assist crime prevention initiatives. Empirical/applied contributions attempt to illustrate the potential of the approach for crime prevention through its application to a particular crime problem. Efforts have been made to include approaches that we thought would be most relevant for the future of crime prevention at the time this collection was developed.

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  1. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, 176 Messines Ridge Road, Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia

    Benoit Leclerc

  2. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Transcrime, Largo Gemelli 1, 20123, Milano, Italy

    Ernesto U. Savona

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    Benoit LeClerc

  2. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Transcrime, Milano, Italy

    Ernesto U. Savona

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Leclerc, B., Savona, E.U. (2017). Crime Prevention in the Twenty-First Century. In: LeClerc, B., Savona, E. (eds) Crime Prevention in the 21st Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27793-6_1

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