@article{ref1,
title="Small Business Crime: The Evaluation of a Crime Prevention Initiative",
journal="Crime prevention and community safety",
year="2001",
author="Bowers, Kate J.",
volume="3",
number="1",
pages="23-42",
abstract="There has been a dearth of evaluation research concerned with assessing the effectiveness of crime prevention schemes that aim to reduce levels of crime committed against businesses and non-residential properties generally. This paper describes the implementation of a scheme aimed at reducing small business crime, with a particular emphasis on burglary in the county of Merseyside. Details of the results of an evaluation of the scheme are then given. The evaluation found that contact with a Crime Prevention Officer significantly reduced levels of crime against businesses. Advice offered by such experts was more effective than the isolated installation of target-hardening measures. The paper also attempts to gather evidence regarding the means by which and the situations in which particular crime prevention measures are effective at reducing levels of crime.<p />",
language="",
issn="1460-3780",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}