This thesis makes two contributions to environmental criminology. The first contribution is a rational choice event model for mobile phone thieves. This is based on interviews with 40 mobile phone thieves. In addition, the deterrent effects of 23 designs of phone are assessed. Comparisons are made between the responses of offenders and non-offenders; and between experienced offenders and less experienced offenders. The results show that mobile phone thieves make discerning choices about which model of phone to steal at the point of theft. The factors affecting handset choice reflect Clarke s (1999) CRAVED characteristics. Mobile phone thieves are differentially deterred by a variety of design solutions, the most effective of which reduce the resale value of stolen handsets. In contrast with offenders, non-offenders are more easily deterred, and statistically significantly more deterred for five of the 23 designs presented in this thesis; do not appreciate the importance of resale value; and are not so aware of the possibilities for circumventing or neutralising security technology. The differences between offender and non-offender responses mean that offenders are arguably best placed to assess product use and misuse in the process of designing-out crime. The second contribution of this thesis is a Mobile Phone Theft Index which controls for phone availability in the absence of handset sales data. Mobile phone theft is arguably a form of pollution (Roman and Farrell, 2002) and can, therefore, be controlled using traditional pollution control instruments (Farrell and Roman, 2006). Informing the public of their risk of victimisation according to handset ownership would make security a marketable aspect of handset design, incentivising industry to decrease theft rates. Industry action to date shows evidence of obstructionism and pre-regulatory initiatives (Newman, 2004) meaning that a novel instrument such as the Index is necessary to alter the current status quo where industry costs UK society an estimated £1.2 billion per year (Mailley and Farrell, 2006).

In this thesis the process by which crime investigation, detection and prosecution became an integral function of the British police service is analysed through an examination of public records, contemporary papers and documents, and by reference to the literature on policing. The impact of the adoption of that function on the role, organisation and management of modem British policing is then assessed. It is established that at its foundation by Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act of 1829, the British professional police service was intended to be a purely preventive and protective body of uniformed patrolling constables. The function of crime investigation, detection and criminal prosecution was then subsequently added to its responsibilities by government using administrative rather than any democratic or legislative means, thus creating the present dual crime prevention and crime detection role of the police. Major recurrentp roblemse xperiencedb y the modemB ritish police servicea re identified as arising from that change in its original functions and purposes, and proposals for action to resolve them are set out.

The misuse of alcohol is well documented in Australia and has been associated with disorders and harms that often require police attention. The extent of alcohol-related incidents requiring police attention has been recorded as substantial in some Australian cities (Arro, Crook, & Fenton, 1992; Davey & French, 1995; Ireland & Thommeny, 1993). A significant proportion of harmful drinking occurs in and around licensed premises (Jochelson, 1997; Stockwell, Masters, Phillips, Daly, Gahegan, Midford, & Philp, 1998; Borges, Cherpitel, & Rosovsky, 1998) and most of these incidents are not reported to police (Bryant & Williams, 2000; Lister, Hobbs, Hall, & Winlow, 2000). Alcohol-related incidents have also been found to be concentrated in certain places at certain times (Jochelson, 1997) and therefore manipulating the context in which these incidents occur may provide a means to prevent and reduce the harm associated with alcohol misuse. One of the major objectives of the present program of research was to investigate the occurrence and resource impact of alcohol-related incidents on operational (general duties) policing across a large geographical area. A second objective of the thesis was to examine the characteristics and temporal/spatial dynamics of police attended alcohol incidents in the context of Place Based theories of crime. It was envisaged that this approach would reveal the patterns of the most prevalent offences and demonstrate the relevance of Place Based theories of crime to understanding these patterns. In addition, the role of alcohol, time and place were also explored in order to examine the association between non criminal traffic offences and other types of criminal offences. A final objective of the thesis was to examine the impact of a situational crime prevention strategy that had been initiated to reduce the violence and disorder associated with late-night liquor trading premises. The program of research in this doctorate thesis has been undertaken through the presentation of published papers. The research was conducted in three stages which produced six manuscripts, five of which were submitted to peer reviewed journals and one that was published in a peer reviewed conference proceedings. Stage One included two studies (Studies 1 & 2) both of which involved a cross sectional approach to examine the prevalence and characteristics of alcohol-related incidents requiring police attendance across three large geographical areas that included metropolitan cities, provincial regions and rural areas. Stage Two of the program of research also comprised two cross sectional quantitative studies (Studies 3 & 4) that investigated the temporal and spatial dynamics of the major offence categories attended by operational police in a specific Police District (Gold Coast). Stage Three of the program of research involved two studies (Studies 5 & 6) that assessed the effectiveness of a situational crime prevention strategy. The studies employed a pre-post design to assess the impact on crime, disorder and violence by preventing patrons from entering late-night liquor trading premises between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. (lockout policy). Although Study Five was solely quantitative in nature, Study Six included both quantitative and qualitative aspects. The approach adopted in Study Six, therefore facilitated not only a quantative comparison of the impact of the lockout policy on different policing areas, but also enabled the processes related to the implementation of the lockout policy to be examined. The thesis reports a program of research involving a common data collection method which then involved a series of studies being conducted to explore different aspects of the data. The data was collected from three sources. Firstly a pilot phase was undertaken to provide participants with training. Secondly a main study period was undertaken immediately following the pilot phase. The first and second sources of data were collected between 29th March 2004 and 2nd May 2004. Thirdly, additional data was collected between the 1st April 2005 and 31st May 2005. Participants in the current program of research were first response operational police officers who completed a modified activity log over a 9 week period (4 week pilot phase & 5 week survey study phase), identifying the type, prevalence and characteristics of alcohol-related incidents that were attended. During the study period police officers attended 31,090 alcohol-related incidents. Studies One and Two revealed that a substantial proportion of current police work involves attendance at alcohol-related incidents (i.e., 25% largely involving young males aged between 17 and 24 years). The most common incidents police attended were vehicle and/or traffic matters, disturbances and offences against property. The major category of offences most likely to involve alcohol included vehicle/traffic matters, disturbances and offences against the person (e.g., common & serious assaults). These events were most likely to occur in the late evenings and early hours of the morning on the weekends, and importantly, usually took longer for police to complete than non alcohol-related incidents. The findings in Studies Three and Four suggest that serious traffic offences, disturbances and offences against the person share similar characteristics and occur in concentrated places at similar times. In addition, it was found that time, place and incident type all have an influence on whether an incident attended by a police officer is alcohol-related. Alcohol-related incidents are more likely to occur in particular locations in the late evenings and early mornings on the weekends. In particular, there was a strong association between the occurrence of alcohol-related disturbances and alcohol-related serious traffic offences in regards to place and time. In general, stealing and property offences were not alcohol-related and occurred in daylight hours during weekdays. The results of Studies Five and Six were mixed. A number of alcohol-related offences requiring police attention were significantly reduced for some policing areas and for some types of offences following the implementation of the lockout policy. However, in some locations the lockout policy appeared to have a negative or minimal impact. Interviews with licensees revealed that although all were initially opposed to the lockout policy as they believed it would have a negative impact on business, most perceived some benefits from its introduction. Some of the benefits included, improved patron safety and the development of better business strategies to increase patron numbers. In conclusion, the overall findings of the six studies highlight the pervasive nature of alcohol across a range of criminal incidents, demonstrating the tremendous impact alcohol-related incidents have on police. The findings also demonstrate the importance of time and place in predicting the occurrence of alcohol-related offences. Although this program of research did not set out to test Place Based theories of crime, these theories were used to inform the interpretation of findings. The findings in the current research program provide evidence for the relevance of Place Based theories of crime to understanding the factors contributing to violence and disorder, and designing relevant crime prevention strategies. For instance, the results in Studies Five and Six provide supportive evidence that this novel lockout initiative can be beneficial for public safety by reducing some types of offences in particular areas in and around late-night liquor trading premises. Finally, intelligent-led policing initiatives based on problem oriented policing, such as the lockout policy examined in this thesis, have potential as a major crime prevention technique to reduce specific types of alcohol-related offences.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1991. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-264).

La présente recherche aborde la question de la lutte contre la délinquance dans le monde arabo-musulman à travers l’exemple de trois pays arabes : l’Algérie, l’Egypte et l’Arabie Saoudite. Malgré une mise en oeuvre parfois problématique de leur politique criminelle et des carences réelles sur le plan des Droits de l’Homme, les régimes autoritaires arabes, qui sont soumis à la pression de la mondialisation, reçoivent les textes onusiens, souhaitent être efficaces dans leur lutte contre le crime et sont tenus de suivre une dynamique positive. Ils témoignent d’une évolution qui les conduit à développer des dispositifs de lutte contre la délinquance et le terrorisme associant une pluralité d’acteurs autour de deux dimensions, répressive et sociale. Recherche de l’efficacité, pluridisciplinarité en construction, coopération et standards internationaux, autant d’aspects qui nous donnent à observer des dispositifs de lutte contre la délinquance qui se rapprochent des schémas que nous connaissons en France. / This research addresses the issue of the fight against crime in the Arab-Muslim world through the example of three Arab countries: Algeria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.Despite a sometimes problematic implementation of their criminal policy and real deficiencies in terms of Human Rights , Arab authoritarian regimes , which are subject to the pressures of globalization , receive the UN texts , wish to be effective in their fight against crime and are required to follow a positive dynamic. They reflect an evolution that led to the development of devices fight against crime and terrorism involving a plurality of actors around two dimensions, repressive and social. Search effectiveness, multidisciplinarity under construction, cooperation and international standards, all of which give us observe devices fight against crime that approximate patterns that we know in France.

Text in Afrikaans / Plaaslike owerhede sal met die devolusie van politieke mag tot op derdevlakregering 'n groter rol in die bepaling van die toekoms van dorpe en stede speel. Binne die raamwerk van nasionale sekuriteit het plaaslike owerhede as werkgewers en eienaars van geboue, 'n besondere verantwoordelikheid om na die beveiliging van mense, die handhawing en voortsetting van dienste en die beskerming van raadseiendom om te sien. Omdat plaaslike owerhede regsoutonoom is, word sekuriteitsafdelings op sy eie manier bedryf wat nie noodwendig die koste-effektiefste en doeltreffendste wyse is nie. Die uitbreiding van private en publieke sekuriteitsdienste noodsaak die ordelike ontwikkeling en koordinering van dienste aan die hand van standaard-aanvaarbare voorskrifte. In die ondersoek is 'n houdingstudie na die aard, omvang, plek, beeld, status, funksies en opleiding van blanke plaaslike owerheidsekuriteitsbeamptes geloods in 'n poging om 'n basis te vestig ten einde plaaslike owerheidsekuriteit op 'n gesonde grondslag te bedryf. / The devolution of political power to local authority level obliges local authorities to play a greater role in determining the future of cities and towns. Within the framework of national security, local authorities as employers and owners of property have a responsibility towards the safeguarding of people, the upholding and continuation of services and the protection of council property. As legal autonomous bodies, local authorities manage their security departments in their own peculiar way which is not necessarily the most cost effective and efficient. The expansion of private and public security services necessitates orderly development and coordination of services with reference to prescribed acceptable standards. This research is an attitudinal study of the nature, scope, place, image, status, functions and training of white local authority security officers in an attempt to establish a point of departure in order to facilitate the sound managing of local authority security. / Police Practice / M.A. (Polisiekunde)

My thesis deals with the very complicated topic of juvenile crime. The circumstances that result in socially pathological phenomenons and crime are now-days relatively easy to happen. The questions of juvenile crime are more frequently discussed not only by the scientists but also by the general public. The goal of my thesis is to outline the problems of the juvenile crime development in the district Klatovy and to use the acquired information in crime prevention and to focus the care on difficult individuals. In the theoretical part, the thesis presents the development of juvenile crime in the Czech Republic and factors that shape and influence it. The practical part of my thesis describes the performed research that is a type of quantitative research from the sociological point of view. The method of questioning, the method of data secondary analysis and the method of model casuistics were used. The targeted group is represented by children and adolescents living in the district Klatovy. The respondents´ principal residence in Klatovy district and the age under 18 are the main criteria of categorization. All respondents were chosen with the method of random stratification. The research was held from January to March of the year 2009. Following hypothesis were determined: Hypothesis 1: The rate of juvenile crime is higher in towns than in villages. Hypothesis 2: Socially pathological features are side-effects of the juvenile crime. Hypothesis 3: Child crime in the district Klatovy is ascending in comparison to adolescent crime in the district Klatovy. I believe that all three hypotheses were confirmed. Based on the OSPOD (Department for juvenile care) reports we can assume that there is na increase in educational problems and subsequently the crime is gradually increasing. If we consider the crime committed by children in the district Klatovy from 2004 to 2008, we find that the year 2007 is a year with the lowest crime rate monitored. We are witnessing the gradually decreasing development trend. Lately, the total development of child crime has been slightly increasing and adolescent crime slowly decreasing.

This thesis analyses criminological factors related to crime of legal entities. Criminal liability of legal entities has not been a subject of such extensive research as criminal liability of natural persons, let alone criminology of crime of legal entities - the origins of this field first appeared in the first half of 20th century, when the criminologist E. H. Sutherland introduced and described a white-collar crime phenomenon. Crime of legal entities is an up-to-date issue, being a phenomenon of a considerable danger and it is desirable to make it a subject of a comprehensive research in order to find the most suitable prevention or an adequate reaction to that crime. Understanding criminological factors related to crime of legal entities can help to prepare matching provisions which can serve as an efficient tool for prevention of and response to this type of crime. This thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one addresses the crime of legal entities in general - it describes the historical evolution of crime of legal entities in the Anglo-American judicial system and its variations in the continental judicial system. After that is presented the history of legal regulation in Czech Republic and its current state. The second chapter discusses the criminological factors related to crime...

The President, Thabo Mbeki, established the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) in 1999 shortly after the general elections. The DSO was intended to supplement the efforts of the South African Police Services in combating crime. The unit would concentrate on national priority crimes and police corruption and would report to the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). The founder members of the DSO were identified in my research and open-ended interviews were conducted with them. The goal of my research was to understand the founder group's experience of the creation of the organisational culture of the DSO and what that experience meant to them . In particular, I wanted to establish what role the founder members of the DSO believed their values and beliefs played in creating the organisation's culture, and their perception of how those values influenced the leadership, management and organisation processes of the DSO. The public sector environment seldom offers opportunities to create something new and this was a unique experience. The founder members received no personal gain except the satisfaction of creating something that would be there for their descendants, something that would change the face of law enforcement forever and in fact, pioneer the troika methodology for the first time in the world within a permanent structure. The values of the founder members influenced their decision to join and they believed that the DSO would make a difference in the lives of ordinary South Africans. They were dedicated, committed, loyal and passionate. Their leadership inspired the members of the organisation and ensured the success of the DSO, despite the lack of resources, staff and legislation. This was an exciting time in the history of the organisation and many personal sacrifices were made. The founder members are proud of the achievements of the DSO and of having been a part thereof. It certainly was "a brilliant time".

Kriminalitet är ett stort problem för samhället och dess invånare, eftersom det stör den allmänna ordningen och inskränker medborgarnas säkerhet. Kriminalvårdens arbete ska därför vara brottsförebyggande, öka människors trygghet och bidra till ett tryggare samhälle. Kriminalvårdens viktiga samhällsuppdrag är att säkerställa att straff blir verkställda, samt även arbeta för att förebygga brottslighet i samhället. Kriminalvården erbjuder behandlingsprogram som främst riktas mot allmän kriminalitet, vålds-och sexualbrott, relationsbrott, samt drog- och alkoholmissbruk. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur programledare inom Kriminalvården upplever att behandlingsprogrammet PULS (Problemlösning, Umgänge, Livsmål och Självkontroll) fungerar brottsförebyggande, med fokus på resultat, förutsättningar och utmaningar i genomförandet av programmet. Datamaterialet samlades in genom 11 semistrukturerade intervjuer. Analysen av datamaterialet har sedan gjorts genom tematisk analys där datamaterialet systematiskt har behandlats och delats in i teman. Resultatet visar att programledarnas förväntade resultat av behandlingsprogrammet är att de berörda deltagarna ska använda de verktyg som erbjuds för att kontrollera sitt beteende och undvika att hamna i situationer som uppmanar till våld eller hot. En förutsättning för att det ska ske är samspelet mellan programledaren och deltagare. Resultatet visar att den främsta utmaningen i genomförandet av programmet är deltagarnas programstörande beteende. / Crime is a major problem for society and its inhabitants, as it disrupts public order and restricts the security of citizens. The Prison and Probation Service's work must therefore be crime prevention, increase people's security and contribute to a safer society. The Prison and Probation Service's important social mission is to ensure that punishments are enforced, but also to work to prevent crime in society. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service offers treatment programs that are primarily aimed at general crime, violent and sexual crimes, relationship crimes, as well as drug and alcohol abuse. The purpose of the study is to investigate how program leaders within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service experience that the treatment program PULS (Problem solving, Socializing, Life goals and Self-control) functions as crime prevention, with a focus on results, conditions, and challenges in the implementation of the program. The data material was collected through 11 semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the data material has then been done through thematic analysis where the data material has been systematically processed and divided into themes. The results show that the presenters' expected results of the treatment program are that the affected clients should use the tools offered to control their behavior and avoid ending up in situations that call for violence or threats. A prerequisite for this to happen is the interaction between the host and the client. The results show that the main challenge in the implementation of the program is the clients' disruptive behavior. / <p>2021-01-14</p>