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 -
