NCJ Number
153207
Date Published
1991
Length
82 pages
Annotation
This monograph explores possible crime prevention strategies related to particular forms of crime occurring in four transport areas in Australia.
Abstract
The monograph refers specifically to the scope of crime committed on trains, trams, and underground transportation systems; buses and bus shelters; taxis; and in airports and on aircraft, and outlines recommended prevention strategies. Prevention strategies have been influenced by the theoretical approach of situational crime prevention, which itself is modeled on three strands of contemporary criminology. These three strands are the rational choice perspective, opportunity theory, and environmental criminology. The basic ingredient of situational crime prevention is the removal of opportunity and the enhancement of costs to outweigh the benefits of crime. Material ways in which opportunity can be removed: target hardening, defensible space architecture, and community-based crime prevention initiatives.