Abstract Identifying communities and locations where chronic and persistent offenders are most likely to reside, and understanding the factors that produce the interconnections between place and offending, has enormous potential for the effective targeting of crime prevention initiatives. This paper provides a valuable contribution to the evidence based supporting effective crime prevention targeting. By showing...

Foreword Despite significant reductions in recent years, acquisitive property crime remains the single largest crime category, with over 700,000 offences recorded annually by police in Australia. There is potential to further reduce the scale of such offending and the subsequent costs to society by focusing attention on the design of frequently stolen consumer products in...

This research from life course and place-based criminology will be used to explore whether some communities generate chronic and costly crime offenders. There has recently been renewed interest in place-based approaches for targeting crime prevention, such as justice reinvestment. The Semi-Parametric Group-based Method was used to identify non-normative or chronic offenders in the 1990 Queensland...

This paper investigates crime and the night-time economy (NTE) associated with an entertainment district in an Australian capital city. It discusses the concept of the ‘environmental backcloth’ (Brantingham and Brantinham, 1993) to this area as important contextual background to some of the contemporary crime problems.

This paper explains some of the activities and processes related to the Community and Environment Project (CEP), a partnership between Housing NSW’s Building Stronger Communities Program at Mt Druitt, the Designing Out Crime (DOC) Research Centre at UTS, and the School of Social Work at UWS. The main aim of the partnership is to develop...