CRIME DISPLACEMENT AS A CONSEQUENCE OF FOCUSED POLICE ACTIVITIES AT CRIME HOT SPOTS
Keywords:
Crime Displacement, Hot Spot Policing, Diffusion of Benefits, Crime Prevention, PoliceAbstract
Hot spots policing refers to the concentration of police resources in small discrete areas such as addresses, street blocks, or clusters of addresses or street blocks. Instead of striving to achieve police omnipresence in the wider area, focused police activities on crime hot spots can reduce crime problems. However, as a result of such efforts, motivated offender does not have to give up its intention to commit a crime. It can be done elsewhere, at another time, in a different way, using different means, etc. It is called the displacement effect and it may mitigate the positive effects of focusing prevention efforts on the hot spots. This paper looks at different ways of displacement, and indicates that focused crime-prevention efforts do not inevitably lead to the displacement of crime problems, rather, when displacement was measured, it was quite limited and often unintended crime prevention benefits were associated with the hot spots policing programs.
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