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This book is about the application of script analysis in the interest of situational crime prevention. The standard methodology applied for designing situational projects, according to Clarke (1997b: 15), is ‘a version of the action research model in which researchers and practitioners work together to analyse and define the problem, to identify and try out possible solutions, to evaluate the result and, if necessary, to repeat the cycle until success is achieved’. Accordingly, a generic situational crime prevention project comprises five stages: a collection of data about the nature and dimensions of the problem; an analysis of the situational conditions that permit or facilitate the commission of the crimes in question; a systematic study of possible means of blocking opportunities for these particular crimes; the implementation of the most promising, feasible, and economic measures; and a (constant) monitoring of results and dissemination of experience (Gladstone 1980, cited in Clarke 1997a, b: 15).
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Haelterman, H. (2016). Introduction. In: Crime Script Analysis. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54613-5_1
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