Crime Science

Melissa J. Smith works within the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London, UK.Nick Tilley is Professor of Security and Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London, UK. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

• Introduction Part 1: Background 1. Defining crime science Part 2: Theory and Methodology 2. How to police the future: scanning for scientific and technological innovations which generate potential threats and opportunities in crime, policing and crime reduction 3. Cost-benefit analysis for crime science: making cost benefit analysis useful through a portfolio of outcomes Part 3: Case Studies in Preventive Crime Science 4. Reducing prison disorder through situational prevention: the Glen Parva experience 5. Driving down crime at motorway service areas 6. Vehicle excise duty evasion in the UK 7. Predicting the future or summarising the past? Crime mapping as anticipation Part 4: Case Studies in Crime Science for Detection 8. DNA fast-tracking 9. Cognition and detection: reluctant bedfellows?