Situational Crime Prevention: Removing opportunity and improving defence to tackle violent crime

30th July 2021Prof Jon Shane, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2 Comments

Levels of violent crime across America saw an unprecedented increase in 2020, and remain worryingly high in 2021; in this last in a series of essays from the Violence Reduction Project, former Newark Police officer Prof Jon Shane of John Jay College of Criminal Justice outlines the thinking behind situational crime prevention, and how addressing the physical and social environment can help to reduce crime, aggression, and disorder.

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