Better Crime Prevention

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics, and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and practice. It concludes with an agenda for continuous improvement. The book also demonstrates what is involved in doing theoretically informed and realistically applied social science orientated to reducing harms.

The focus throughout this book is on ethical and effective ways to reduce crime-related harms. There are chapters on how to target crime prevention efforts, crime prevention theories and frameworks, ethical issues in crime prevention, the practical conduct of crime prevention, evidence-based crime prevention, the politics of crime prevention, and the need for continuous adaptation in crime prevention.

Student readers will obtain an overview of, and capacity critically to engage with, crime prevention theory and practice. Policymakers and practitioner readers will be able to make better-informed decisions about what to do and how to allocate crime prevention resources. Social scientists interested in contributing realistically to harm reduction will better understand how they can go about doing so.

Nick Tilley has taught or conducted research at Coventry University, Nottingham Trent University, The University of Minnesota, Griffith University, the Home Office, and most recently University College London. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (FAcSS) and has been awarded an OBE for services to policing and crime reduction. The Tilley Award for police problem-solving is named in his honour. He is an honorary professor at UCL, an emeritus professor at Nottingham Trent University, and a visiting professor at Huddersfield University. He is author or editor of 15 books and more than 200 chapters and journal articles, mostly to do with evaluation methodology, policing, and crime prevention.