Anticipated Consequences: Developing a Strategy for the Targeted Measurement of Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits (From Evaluation for Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention Studies Volume 14, P 11-52, 2002, Nick Tilley, ed., -- See NCJ-195626)

• NCJ Number: 195627
• Author(s): Niall Hamilton-Smith
• Date Published: 2002
• Length: 42 pages
• Sale Source: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

Part of an international volume on evaluating crime prevention and crime reduction policies and practices, this paper discusses the displacement and diffusion of crime prevention benefits in neighborhoods.

Abstract

As part of an international series focused on the evaluation of policies and practices relating to crime prevention and crime reduction, this work examines the ways that crime reduction project evaluations measure the displacement and the diffusion of crime prevention benefits. Describing displacement as the relocation of crime from the project prevention area to neighboring areas, and diffusion as the spilling over of crime prevention program benefits from the project area to neighboring areas, this author asserts that measurement strategies in this area of research are lacking. Using the United Kingdom’s Reducing Burglary Initiative (RBI) projects as an example, this author proposes that members of crime prevention research teams need to better develop their hypotheses concerning crime diffusion and displacement and need to better implement their measurement techniques in order to introduce effective crime prevention programs. References, notes