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Crime Frameworks https://crimeframeworks.com is a new website providing a wide-ranging set of advanced tools for practitioners, programme managers and policymakers; and a wealth of material for researchers. Developed by Professor Paul Ekblom, the Crime Frameworks support sharper and more productive thinking, planning, design, communication, sharing of practice knowledge and action in crime prevention, security and community safety. Drawing on Crime Science and other fields, they cover both situational and offender-oriented interventions to tackle crime and terrorism more effectively, now and in future.
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The Crime Frameworks https://crimeframeworks.com have been developed from a career of experience in researching, evaluating, co-designing and implementing crime prevention, security and community safety action. The frameworks centre on analysis of causes and risk factors, and generation and application of interventions derived from tested theoretical principles. They support and complement an evidence-based approach, combined with a strong orientation towards theory and sharp conceptual analysis. They offer an advanced, integrated approach intended to handle the messy complexity of real-world crime problems and solutions more effectively than existing counterparts which can be oversimple and fragmentary. But they can be applied at different levels of sophistication according to the needs and abilities of users.
The underlying philosophy is that a greater investment in knowledge tools enables better, more adaptive/agile performance in crime prevention, security and community safety – both practice and research.
The frameworks include:
- A clear and consistent suite of terms, definitions and concepts with which to articulate, record and share diverse approaches to crime and security
- The 5Is Framework which is both an advanced process model (Intelligence, Intervention, Implementation, Involvement, Impact & process evaluation) and a knowledge capture framework. It is a more sophisticated counterpart of the SARA model for Problem-Oriented Policing, and also for describing action for knowledge-management purposes.
- The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity, a ‘one-stop-shop’ integrated framework of the immediate causes of criminal events, and counterpart intervention principles – similar to the Problem Analysis Triangle but much more comprehensive and detailed
- The Ds Framework, for describing how situational interventions have their effect on the offender
- The Misdeeds and Security Framework, for thinking systematically about the range of crime risks and security possibilities potentially emerging from new products and other fruits of design
The Crime Frameworks website focuses variously on here-and-now crime, security and terrorism problems; the secure design of products, places (CPTED), systems and services; cybercrime; future crimes; crime-security arms races and other evolutionary processes; and techniques and applications of evaluation.
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