Crime Prevention in the 21st Century

Benoit Leclerc is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has been involved in research and clinical work with adolescent and adult sex offenders at the Philippe-Pinel Institute of Montréal for 7 years and received his Ph.D. from the Université of Montréal, Canada. His research interests include script analysis, environmental criminology and situational crime prevention, and sexual offending. He is the lead investigator of a funded project on the study of the effectiveness of situational prevention to prevent sexual offences.  Ernesto U. Savona, is Director of TRANSCRIME, Joint Research Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Università degli Studi di Trento and Editor-in-Chief of European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (Springer). Since 2003, he has been professor of Criminology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. From 1986 to 2002, he was professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at the Università degli Studi di Trento. From 1971 to 1986, he was associate professor at the Faculty of Statistical Sciences at the Università “La Sapienza” in Rome. He is Past President of the European Society of Criminology (2003/2004) and Chair for the term 2011-2012 of the Global Agenda Council on Organized Crime of the World Economic Forum. Professor Savona is a member of the European Commission experts group on policy needs for data on crime and criminal justice and of the expert group on Firearms. His research interests and key publications include books and articles on organized crime, money laundering and corruption. He has developed for the 6th EU Research Framework Programme the crime-proofing approach aimed at preventing opportunities for crime inadvertently created by regulation.

“This is a substantial publication at almost 400 pages, and has been nicely produced by the publisher. … The book also provided some exciting illustrations of how the various techniques might further the cause of crime prevention. The task now is to implement and evaluate more of these potentially fruitful approaches and to contribute to what we know might work, where and how.” (Gloria Laycock, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, July, 2017)

• Section 1: The Offenders’ Perspective on Crime Prevention.- Section 2: Crime Script Analysis.- Section 3: Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis.- Section 4: Social Network Analysis.- Section 5. Agent-Based Modelling.- Section 6: Crime-Proofing Legislations.- Section 7: Technologies.