Tag: Crime reduction

Setting standards for properties to improve physical security and lower the risk of crime.

This summary is part of the Crime Reduction Toolkit, which presents the best available research evidence on what works to reduce crime.

Increasing police patrols over large geographic areas, such as neighbourhoods, districts or force areas, to reduce crime.

This summary is part of the Crime Reduction Toolkit, which presents the best available research evidence on what works to reduce crime.

Increased supervision, strict conditions of compliance and access to services to prevent young people reoffending.

Using repeat victimisation approach to target allocation of resources to reduce residential burglary.

Targeted sports programmes for the general population, people at risk of offending, and people who have already committed crime.

A treatment programme for people with mental illness that legally requires adherence.

Using prison inmates to deliver obedience training to dogs.

Providing a community-based living environment, primarily to support offenders leaving prison.

Accident and emergency navigators work in hospitals to support patients with a violence-related injury with the aim of reducing future involvement in violence.

Using support services to deter repeat offenders.

Day reporting centres (DRCs) are based in the community and offer rehabilitation programmes to offenders with custodial sentences.