“It costs nothing to make crime one of the factors which is routinely considered when, say, new policies for the delivery of social services are planned, or new housing estates are built . . .”
(www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/p010301)
Secondary seeks to target potential offenders through early identification. The majority of all crime prevention initiatives fall into the Secondary sections, for example schemes run in under privilege areas like the Kirkolt Project.
The kirkholt project focused on repeat victims of burglaries. This was done by the targeting of victims and the surrounding houses with preventative measures. Thus reducing the number of burglaries.
The success of the Kikholt project saw other initiatives being implemented these targeted the victims of racial attacks, domestic violence, commercial burglary, school vandalism and others.
Tertiary deals with offenders and the crime prevention interventions which can be put into place to make sure they do not re-offend. These include reform, rehabilitation and …show more content…
The only problem that emerged from the ‘Five Town’s’ Initiative was that no actual research evaluation was included. So in theory how would we know whether or not it had been a success?
(Crawford 1998 p78)
And then in 1988 the first report into the highly influential “Kirkholt Burglary Prevention project” was published.
This provided important research into repeat victimisation. And played a very important part in the “developing of routine crime prevention”.
(Farrell et al 2000 cited in Tilley 2002, p21)
‘Safer Cities’ was launched in March 1988 by the Home Office as its contribution to the ‘Action for Cities’ Programme. The Steering groups were set up consisting of the Police, Local Authorities, probation and representatives from the Voluntary and Private sectors. They were given £250,000 towards setting up the projects. The steering committee's terms of reference were: to reduce crime
To lessen the fear of crime to create safer cities in which economic and community life would flourish.
‘Safer Cities’ programme was initiated, this led to 20 cities with high crime rates being included in the