The number of house burglaries is steadily decreasing year after year, as can be seen in this series of figures. The reason? Less opportunity. Opportunity creates the thief. This means that reducing the opportunity for crime is the best way to reduce crime.
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Graham Farrell, March 2024 Conference: Three Decades of Quantitative Criminology at Manchester At: University of Manchester. The Mancunian Candidate: Crime, Repeat Crime and Crime Science. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379088412_The_Mancunian_Candidate_Crime_Repeat_Crime_and_Crime_Science [accessed Mar 27 2024].
Or contact Paul van Soomeren.
Paul co-founded DSP-groep and works with the Dutch Institute for Safe and Secure Spaces (DIS). He is the Director of the Board of the International CPTED Association and chair of the CEN working group making European Standards on Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED, see CEN/TS 14383-2:2022).