Citation

Wikström POH. Crime Justice 1995; 19: 429-468.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, University of Chicago Press)

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Abstract

Prevention of crime and disorder in the city center is a neglected research topic. Few evaluations have been conducted of city-center street-crime prevention measures or programs. However, strategic insights for preventing crime and disorder in public in the city center can be gleaned from research into the patterns and causes of city-center crime and disorder. City centers are largely nonresidential areas where strangers from different social backgrounds mix in public space. City-center legal activities such as shopping and entertainment attract both conventional people and criminals, but they also create temptations and friction between people. Preventing crime in the city center is basically a question of influencing routine activities generating temptations and friction and of developing focused strategies of policing and surveillance.

Language: en