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Dan Birks

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Crime prevention features

Understanding the Dimensions of Crime Prevention Interventions

Crime prevention interventions can be characterised in many different ways. The College of Policing’s Crime Reduction Toolkit and its underpinning EMMIE framework provide a robust approach for assessing what works to reduce crime. But applying that knowledge in practice requires us to think carefully about how specific interventions will interact with the spatial and temporal characteristics of the problems they are intended to address. Understanding not just whether something works, but where, when, and under what conditions, is crucial for matching interventions to the dynamics of crime on the ground.

  • 3 min read

Why is all this maths important?

An introduction to the rationale behind our analytical approach

This post is the first in a short blog series designed to accompany the analyses, documentation and reproducible code developed as part of our Safer Streets project. While the technical outputs are aimed at transparency and reusability, this series provides a more accessible commentary on the why behind the what - why we’re doing what we’re doing, and why it matters for policing and crime prevention practice.