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Providing Opportunities: A Sixth Column for the Techniques of Situational Crime Prevention

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This paper adds to Situational Crime Prevention’s (SCP) techniques that are used to prevent or reduce criminal behavior. We create a sixth column of techniques to “provide opportunities” for offenders to do something else, i.e., to commit a less serious crime or a legal behavior. Our orientation is based upon a “hard” SCP approach. We respond to recent developments in SCP that have incorporated “soft” strategies and somewhat deemphasized the rational choice assumptions of SCP’s initial formulation.

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    The theoretical differences as to how these models operate must be inferred from their tables for the control of offending behavior and situational environments. In fact, a number of Wortley’s intervention techniques had already been included in Clarke’s 16 techniques (Cornish and Clarke 2003, p. 66).

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  1. Department of Criminal Justice & Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, John Jay College, City University of New York, 445 West 59th Street, suite 2123, 10019, New York, NY, USA

    Joshua D. Freilich

  2. School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, New York, USA

    Graeme R. Newman

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  1. TRANSCRIME, U. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Caneppele

  2. TRANSCRIME, U. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Calderoni

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Freilich, J., Newman, G. (2014). Providing Opportunities: A Sixth Column for the Techniques of Situational Crime Prevention. In: Caneppele, S., Calderoni, F. (eds) Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01839-3_5

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