Scandinavian Prospects for a Place-Based Randomized Experiment on Burglary Reduction

TY - JOUR

T1 - Scandinavian Prospects for a Place-Based Randomized Experiment on Burglary Reduction

AU - Sorensen, David Woodrow Mattson

N1 - Paper id:: 10.1080/14043850701299735

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Despite their widespread implementation, there is a surprising absence of clear-cut, unambiguous evidence concerning the effectiveness of situational crime prevention approaches (e.g. alarms, neighborhood watch, property-marking) on residential burglary. This absence of evidence - which should not be confused with a presence of contradictory evidence - stems most notably from the fact that very few of the programs enacted to date have been evaluated under controlled, experimental conditions. The current article describes problems with previous evaluations and advocates the use of a place-based, randomized experimental design - which this author argues should be easier to implement in Scandinavia than elsewhere.

AB - Despite their widespread implementation, there is a surprising absence of clear-cut, unambiguous evidence concerning the effectiveness of situational crime prevention approaches (e.g. alarms, neighborhood watch, property-marking) on residential burglary. This absence of evidence - which should not be confused with a presence of contradictory evidence - stems most notably from the fact that very few of the programs enacted to date have been evaluated under controlled, experimental conditions. The current article describes problems with previous evaluations and advocates the use of a place-based, randomized experimental design - which this author argues should be easier to implement in Scandinavia than elsewhere.

U2 - 10.1080/14043850701299735

DO - 10.1080/14043850701299735

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2578-983X

VL - 8

SP - 97

EP - 112

JO - Nordic Journal of Criminology

JF - Nordic Journal of Criminology

IS - 1

ER -