Crime prevention and how it works

If you need to define 'crime prevention' to someone here's my own definition of the term, which I’ve cobbled together from about a dozen variants on the internet

'The anticipation, recognition and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation and completion of some action to remove or reduce the risk and thereby its consequences'

Some of you in the police will probably recognise most of this definition to which I’ve added a few personal touches!

To find out about the ten principles of crime prevention, which you can use when formulating a response to a crime problem, take a look at the link below:

Ten principles of Crime Prevention http://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/references-and-library/720/ten-principles-of-crime-prevention/