Preventing Repeat Residential Burglary:
A meta-evaluation of two Australian demonstration projects
Contents | Acknowledgements | Executive Summary | Chapter 1: About repeat victimisation | Chapter 2: The demonstration projects | Chapter 3: Meta-Evaluation | Chapter 4: Programme guide and resource tools | Appendix 1: Summary of research study outcomes | Appendix 2: Process evatuation framework
References
Anderson, D., Chenery, S. & Pease, K. (1995)
Biting back: Tackling repeat burglary and car crime. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 58.
Home Office: London.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (1999a) Crime and safety, Australia, April 1998. (ABS Cat. No. 4509.0) Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (1999b) Crime and safety, Australia, April 1998: Supplementary national and standard tables. (ABS Cat. No. 4509.0.40.001) Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
Bennett, T. & Durie, L. (1999) Preventing residential burglary in Cambridge: From crime audits to targeted strategies. Police Research Paper 108. Home Office: London.
Berry, G. & Carter, M. (1992) Assessing crime prevention initiatives: the first steps. Crime Prevention Unit Paper no. 31, London: Home Office.
Bowers, K., Hirschfield, A. & Johnson, S. (1998) ¨Victimisation revisited: A case study of non-residential repeat burglary on Merseyside¹. British Journal of Criminology, 38, 429-452.
Borooah, V. & Carcach, C. (1997) ¨Crime and fear: Evidence from Australia¹. British Journal of Criminology, 38, 635-57.
Bouloukos, A. & Farrell, G. (1997) ¨On the displacement of repeat victimisation¹. In Newman, G., Clarke, R. & Shoram, S. (Eds) Rational Choice and Situational Crime Prevention. Ashgate: Dartmouth.
Boys, A. & Warburton, F. (2000) Involving your community Nacro & Crime Concern, www.crimereduction.gov.uk/partnerships8a.pdf
Bridgeman, C. & Hobbs, L. (1997) Preventing repeat victimisation: The police officer¹s guide. Police Research Group: London.
Budd, T. (1999) Burglary of domestic dwellings: Findings from the British Crime Survey. Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate, London.
Budd, T. (2001) Burglary: practice messages from the British Crime Survey. Briefing Note 5/01 Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate, London.
Bureau of Justice Assistance (2001) ¨Comprehensive Communities Programme: programme account¹. Bureau of Justice Assistance Bulletin US Department of Justice: Washington.
Bureau of Justice Assistance (2001) ¨Comprehensive Communities Programme: promising approaches¹. Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph, US Department of Justice: Washington.
Chenery, S., Holt, J. & Pease, K. (1997) Biting Back ii: Reducing repeat victimisation in Huddersfield. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 82. Home Office: London.
Chee, E. (1999) Family violence: Findings from the 1998 Crime and Safety Survey. Unpublished report, National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Melbourne.
Clarke, R. (1992) Situational Crime Prevention. Harrow & Heston: New York.
Clarke, R. (1995) Situational crime prevention. In Tonry, M. & Farrington, D. (Eds) Building a Safer Society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention. University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London.
Clarke, R. (1999) Hot products: Understanding, anticipating and reducing demand for stolen goods. Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, London.
Coolbaugh, K. & Hansel, C. (2000) The Comprehensive Strategy: Lessons Learned From the Pilot Sites. OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin, March 2000. http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/jjbul2000_03_1/contents.htm
Crime Prevention Division, NSW (1998a) Community Crime Prevention: What you can do in your community. http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/cpd.nsf/pages/cpdbelongindex
Crime Prevention Division, NSW (1998b) How to develop a Local Crime Prevention Plan. http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/cpd.nsf/pages/cpddevelopindex
Crime Prevention Unit, NZ (2000) Suggested success factors: Safer Community Councils. Department of Justice: Wellington.
Criminal Justice Commission (2001) Lightning strikes twice: preventing repeat home burglary. National Crime Prevention, Canberra.
Criminal Justice Commission (2000) Beenleigh Break and Enter Reduction Project: An evaluation report to National Crime Prevention. Criminal Justice Commission: Brisbane.
Criminal Justice Commission (1999) Crime prevention partnerships in Queensland: an evaluation of a pilot programme. Research & Prevention Division, Criminal Justice Commission: Brisbane.
Criminal Justice Commission (1997) Hot spots and repeat break and enter crimes: An analysis of police calls for service data. Criminal Justice Commission: Brisbane.
Dhiri, S. & Brand, S. (1999) Analysis of costs and benefits: guidance for evaluators. Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate, London.
Department of the Premier and Cabinet (forthcoming) Partners in crime prevention: A resource manual for Queensland communities. Queensland Government: Brisbane.
Eck, J. (1997) Preventing crime at places. In Sherman, L., Gottfredson, D., MacKenzie, D., Eck, J., Reuter, P. & Bushway, S. (1997) Preventing crime: What works, what doesn¹t, what¹s promising. Report to the United States Congress. http://www.ncjrs.org/works/chapter7.htm
Ekblom, P. (1998) ¨Situational crime prevention: effectiveness of local initiatives¹. In Goldblatt, P. & Lewis, C. (Eds) Reducing offending: an assessment of research evidence on ways of dealing with offending behaviour. Home Office: London.
Ellingworth, D., Farrell, G. & Pease, K. (1995) ¨A victim is a victim is a victim? Chronic victimisation in four sweeps of the British Crime Survey¹. British Journal of Criminology, 35, 360-365.
Farrell, G. (1995) ¨Preventing repeat victimization¹. In Tonry, M. & Farrington, D. (Eds) Building a Safer Society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention. University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London.
Farrell, G. & Pease, K. (1993) Once bitten, twice bitten: Repeat victimisation and its implications for crime prevention. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 46. Home Office: London.
Farrell, G. & Tseloni, A. (2001) Cross-National Comparative Rates of Repeat Victimisation - and a Preliminary Case Study of the United States. Paper for presentation at the Workshop on Cross-National Comparative Crime Victimization Research, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2001.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities & National Crime Prevention Centre (2000) Primer on municipal crime prevention.
Fisher, J., Chorley, J. & Riches, M. (1999) Residential Break and Enter Prevention Pilot Project. Crime Prevention Unit, South Australian Attorney-General¹s Department.
Forrester, D., Chatterton, M., Pease, K. & Brown, R. (1988) The Kirkholt burglary prevention project, Rochdale. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 13. Home Office: London.
Forrester, D., Frenz, S., O¹Connell, M. & Pease, K. (1990) The Kirkholt burglary prevention project: Phase II. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 23. Home Office: London.
Goldblatt, P. (1998) Comparative effectiveness of different approaches. In Goldblatt, P. & Lewis, C. (Eds) Reducing offending: an assessment of research evidence on ways of dealing with offending behaviour. Home Office: London.
Government Statistician¹s Office (1992) Crime Victims Survey, Queensland 1991. Government Statistician¹s Office, Brisbane.
Griswold, D. (1992) ¨Crime prevention and commercial burglary: a time series analysis¹. In Clarke, R. (Ed) Situational Crime Prevention. Harrow & Heston: New York.
Henderson, M. (2001) Good practice features of community crime prevention models. Report to Crime Prevention Queensland, Department of the Premier and Cabinet: Brisbane.
Hester, R. (2000) ¨Crime and disorder partnerships: voluntary and community sector involvement¹ Home Office Briefing Note 10/00. Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Home Office: London.
Home Office (1990) Partnership in crime prevention. Home Office: London.
Home Office Communication Directorate (1998) Guidance on Statutory Crime and Disorder Partnerships.http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cdact/cdaguid.htm
Home Office Toolkit Team (2001a) Repeat victimisation. http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/rv00.htm
Home Office Toolkit Team (2001b) Crime reduction toolkits: victim profile: repeat victimisation. www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/vc020302.htm
Home Office Toolkit Team (2001c) Crime reduction toolkits: domestic burglary. http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/db00.htm
Homel, P. (2000) When worlds collide - or who¹s in charge of this partnership anyway? Paper presented at the conference ¨Reducing criminality: partnerships and best practice¹. Convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology, in association with the WA Ministry of Justice, Department of Local Government, Western Australian Police Service and Safer WA, Perth, 31 July and 1 August 2000.
Hough, M. & Tilley, N. (1998) Getting the grease to squeak: Research lessons for crime prevention. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 85.
Home Office: London.
Ireland, S. (1997) Lightning never strikes in the same place twice - but it strikes nine times at Mount Druitt: The policy implications of multiple housebreaking victimisations. Unpublished report, Reform Coordination Unit, NSW Police.
Johnson, S., Bowers, K. & Hirschfield, A. (1997) ¨New insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of repeat victimization¹. British Journal of Criminology, 37, 224-241.
Johnston, V., Leitner, M., Shapland, J. & Wiles, P. (1994) Crime on industrial estates. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 54. Home Office: London.
Jordan, P. (1998) ¨Effective policing strategies for reducing crime¹. In Goldblatt, P. & Lewis, C. (Eds) Reducing offending: an assessment of research evidence on ways of dealing with offending behaviour. Home Office: London.
Laycock, G. (1985) Property marking: A deterrent to burglary. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 3. Home Office: London.
Laycock, G. (1989) An evaluation of domestic security surveys. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 18. Home Office: London.
Laycock, G. & Tilley, N. (1995) Policing and Neighbourhood Watch: Strategic issues. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 60. Home Office: London.
Lead Ministers (1995) National Anti-Crime Strategy: Lead Ministers paper. Report prepared by departmental officers on behalf of their jurisdiction, compiled and edited by Jane Fisher, Crime Prevention Unit, South Australian Attorney-General¹s Department, and amended by Lead Ministers, 28 June 1995.
Liddle, A. & Gelsthorpe, L. (1994a) Inter-agency crime prevention: organising local delivery. Crime Prevention Unit Series Paper 52, Home Office Police Research Group: London.
Liddle, A. & Gelsthorpe, L. (1994b) Crime prevention and inter-agency cooperation. Crime Prevention Unit Series Paper 53, Home Office Police Research Group: London.
Liddle, A. & Gelsthorpe, L. (1994c) Inter-agency crime prevention: further issues Crime Prevention Unit Series Supplementary Paper, Home Office Police Research Group: London.
Lindstrom, P. (1997) ¨Patterns of school crime: A replication and empirical extension¹. British Journal of Criminology, 37, 121-130.
Lloyd, S., Farrell, G. & Pease, K. (1994) Preventing repeated domestic violence: A demonstration project on Merseyside. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 49. Home Office: London.
Ministry of Justice, New Zealand (1997) ¨National survey of crime victims published.¹ Justice matters, 4.
Morgan, F. (2001a) ¨Repeat burglary in a Perth suburb: Indicator of short-term or long-term risk?¹ In Farrell, G. and Pease, K. (Eds) Repeat victimization, Crime Prevention Studies, Vol 12. Monsey: Criminal Justice Press.
Morgan, F. (2001b) The South Australian Residential Break and Enter Project: outcome evaluation. Draft report to Crime Prevention Unit, Attorney-General¹s Department: Adelaide.
Morris, S. (1996) Policing problem housing estates. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 74. Home Office: London.
Mukherjee, S. & Carcach, C. (1998) Repeat victimisation in Australia. Australian Institute of Criminology, Research and Public Policy Series no 15.
National Anti-Crime Strategy/National Campaign Against Violence and Crime (1997) Proposal for a pilot project to prevent residential break and enter.
Office of Economic and Statistical Research (2001) Queensland Crime Victimisation Survey 2000. Queensland Government, Brisbane.
Office of Justice Programs (1998) Youth in action: planning a successful crime prevention project. US Department of Justice: Washington.
Osborne, D. & Tseloni, A. (1998) ¨The distribution of household property crime¹. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 14, 307-330.
Paap, W. (1981) ¨Being burglarized: An account of victimization¹. Victimology, 6, 297-305.
Pease, K. (1992) ¨Preventing repeat burglary on a British public housing estate¹. In Clarke, R. (Ed) Situational Crime Prevention. Harow & Heston:
New York.
Pease, K. (1998) Repeat Victimisation: Taking stock. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 90. Home Office: London.
Perez, H. (2001) Workshop Summaries: Reducing Residential Burglary by Targeting Repeat Victims.
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) (1996) Reducing repeat victimisation of residential burglary: A measure of police impact in three cities. Report, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington.
Polvi, N., Looman, T., Humphries, C. & Pease, K. (1991) ¨The time course of repeat burglary victimisation¹. British Journal of Criminology, 31,
411-414.
Ratcliffe, J. & McCullagh, J. (1998) ¨Identifying repeat victimisation with GIS¹. British Journal of Criminology, 38, 651-662.
Read, T. & Tilley, N. (2000) Not rocket science? Problem-solving and crime reduction. Crime Reduction Research series Paper 6, Home Office: London.
Robinson, M. (1998) ¨Burglary revictimisation: The time period of heightened risk¹. British Journal of Criminology, 38, 78-87.
Sampson, A. & Phillips, C. (1995) Reducing repeat racial victimisation on an East London estate. Home Office: London.
Shaw, M. & Pease, K. (2000) Preventing repeat victimisation in Scotland: Some examples of good practice. Scottish Executive Central Research Unit. www.Scotland.gov.uk/cru/kd01/green/repeat00.htm
Shepherd, J. (1990) ¨Violent crime in Bristol: An Accident and Emergency Department perspective¹. British Journal of Criminology, 30, 289-305.
Sherman, L., Gottfredson, D., MacKenzie, D., Eck, J., Reuter, P. & Bushway, S. (1998) Preventing crime: What works, what doesn¹t, what¹s promising. National Institute of Justice, Washington.
Solicitor General, Canada (1998) Urban Victimization Survey: Multiple victimization. Bulletin 10, Ministry Secretariat, Canada.
Spelman, W. (1995) ¨Once bitten, then what? Cross sectional and time-course explanations of repeat victimization¹. British Journal of Criminology, 35, 366-383.
Stockdale, J. & Gresham, P. (1995) Combating burglary: An evaluation of three strategies. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 59. Home Office: London.
Sutton, M. (1995) ¨Supply by theft¹. British Journal of Criminology, 35, 400-416.
Taylor, G. (1999) ¨Using repeat victimisation to counter commercial burglary: the Leicester experience¹. Security Journal, 12, 41-52.
Taplin, S. Fletcher, W., McKenzie, D. & Flaherty, B. (2001) Safer Towns and Cities Housebreaking Reduction Project Evaluation Report. Ashfield and Mid North Coast Local Area Commands, NSW Police Service.
The International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (2001) The role of local government in community safety. Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph, Bureau of Justice Assistance: Washington.
Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (2000) Effective crime prevention: keeping pace with new developments. Vienna, 10Å17 April, 2000.
Tilley, N. (1995) Thinking about crime prevention performance indicators. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 57. Home Office: London.
Tilley, N. (1993) After Kirkholt?Theory, method and results of replication evaluations. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 47. Home Office: London.
Tilley, N. (1993) The prevention of crime against small business: the Safer Cities experience. Home Office Police Research Group, London.
Tilley, N. & Hopkins, M. (1998) Business as usual: An evaluation of the Small Business and Crime Initiative. Police Research series paper 95. Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, London.
Tilley, N. & Webb, J. (1994) Burglary reduction: Findings from Safer Cities schemes. Crime Detection and Prevention Series, 51. Home Office: London.
Townsley, M., Homel, R. & Chaseling, J. (2000) ¨Repeat burglary victimisation: spatial and temporal patterns¹. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 33, 37-63.
Trickett, A., Ellingworth, D., Hope, T. & Pease, K. (1995) ¨Crime victimization in the eighties: Changes in area and regional inequality¹. British Journal of Criminology, 35, 343-359.
Trickett, A., Osborn, D., Seymour, J. & Pease, K. (1992) ¨What is different about high crime areas¹. British Journal of Criminology, 32, 81-89.
van Dijk, J. (1997) ¨Toward a residential based crime reduction policy¹. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 5, 13-27.
Walter, C. (2000) South Australian Residential Break and Enter Pilot Project: programme evaluation. Crime Prevention Unit, Attorney-General¹s Department: Adelaide.
White, R. & Coventry, G. (2000) Evaluating community safety: a guide. Darebin City Council, City of Booroonda, City of Frankston, Cardinia Shire Council, and Department of Justice, Victoria.
Whitehead, P. & Gray, P. (1998) ¨Pulling the plug on computer theft¹. Policing and Reducing Crime Unit Research Series Paper, 101 Home Office. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/prg101bf.pdf
Wortley, R. (1997) Crime-enabling versus crime-precipitating situations: Reconsidering the role of opportunity in situational crime prevention.
Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Brisbane, July 1997.