Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes Crime Science Series

Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing opportunities for crime. Despite accumulating evidence of its value in reducing many different kinds of crime - such as burglary, fraud, robbery, car theft, child sexual abuse and even terrorism - little has previously been published about its role in reducing organised crimes.

This collection of case studies, by a distinguished international group of researchers, fills this gap by documenting the application of a situational prevention approach to a variety of organised crimes. These include sex trafficking, cigarette and drug smuggling, timber theft, mortgage fraud, corruption of private professionals and public officials, and subversion of tendering procedures for construction projects. By moving the focus away from the nature of criminal organisations to the analysis of the crimes committed by these organisations, the book opens up a fresh agenda for policy and research.

Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes will be of interest to those tasked with tackling organised crime problems, as well as those interested in understanding the ways that organised crime problems have manifested themselves globally, and how law enforcement and other agencies might seek to tackle them in the future.

Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Situational Crime Prevention and Cross-Border Crime 3. Preventing Organized Crime: The Case of Contraband Cigarettes 4. Sex Trafficking: A Target for Situation Crime Prevention? 5. Situational Prevention of Organized Timber Theft and Related Corruption 6. Situational Organized Crime Prevention in Amsterdam: The Administrative Approach 7. Mortgage Fraud and Facilitating Circumstances 8. Infiltration by Italian Organised Crime (Mafia, N'drangheta and Camorra) of the Public Construction Industry 9. Situational Prevention Against Unlawful Influence from Organized Crime 10. Organised Crime and Crime Scripts: Prospects for Disruption 11. Policing Mobile Criminality: Towards a Situational Crime Prevention Approach to Organised Crime

Karen Bullock is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey. Her research interests include policing, and crime reduction theory and practice. Published works include Problem-oriented Policing and Partnership: Implementaion of an Evidence Based Approach to Crime Reduction with Erol, R and Tilley, N (Willan, 2006), and Crime Reduction and Problem-oriented Policing with Tilley, N (Willan, 2003).

Ronald V. Clarke is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, USA. He is the founding editor of Crime Prevention Studies, and is the author or co-author of over 220 books, monographs and papers. His most recent publications include Superhighway Robbery: Preventing E-commerce Crime (Willan Publishing, 2003), Become a Problem Solving Crime Analyst (U.S. Dept of Justice, 2005) and Outsmarting the Terrorists (Praeger, 2006).

Nick Tilley is a Visiting Professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London. He is also Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. His research interests lie in policing, crime prevention and programme evaluation methodology.