TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Small Business Crime: The Evaluation of a Crime Prevention Initiative
JO  - Crime prevention and community safety
A1  - Bowers, Kate J.
SP  - 23
EP  - 42
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 1460-3780
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -