Publications

Books

Armitage, R. and Ekblom, P. (Eds.) (2019). Rebuilding Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Strengthening the Links with Crime Science. Milton Park: Taylor and Francis.

Ekblom, P. (Ed.) (2012). Design Against Crime: Crime Proofing Everyday Objects. Crime Prevention Studies 27 Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner.

Ekblom, P. (2011c). Crime Prevention, Security and Community Safety Using the 5Is Framework. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Encyclopedia/ Dictionary/ Handbook entries

Ekblom, P. (2022). * ‘Facing the future: the role of horizon-scanning in helping security keep up with the changes to come’ in M. Gill (Ed.) The Handbook of Security 3^rd Edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Johnson, S., Ekblom, P., Laycock, G., Frith, M., Sombatruang, N. and Rosas Valdez, E. (2019). * ‘Future crime’ in R. Wortley, A. Sidebottom, N. Tilley and G. Laycock (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Crime Science 428-446. Milton Park: Routledge.

Ekblom, P. and Gill, P. (2018). * ‘Evolution, crime science and terrorism: the case of Provisional IRA weaponry’ in R. Wortley, A. Sidebottom, N. Tilley and G. Laycock (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Crime Science 252-270. Milton Park: Routledge.

Ekblom, P. (2018a). ‘La prevención del delito mediante el diseño de productos’ en Tenca, Mariano y Mendez Ortiz, Emiliano (Coordinadores) Manual de Prevención del Delito y Seguridad Ciudadana. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Didot.

Ekblom, P. (2017a). * ‘Evolutionary approaches to rational choice’ in W. Bernasco, J-L. van Gelder and H. Elffers (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making. Oxford: OUP.

Ekblom, P. (2017b). * ‘Crime, situational prevention and technology – the nature of opportunity and how it evolves’. In M. McGuire and T. Holt (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice. Milton Park: Routledge, 353-374.

Ekblom, P. (2017c). * ‘Crime prevention through product design’ in N. Tilley and A. Sidebottom (Eds.) Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2nd Edn.). London: Taylor and Francis.

Ekblom, P. (2017d). * ‘Designing products against crime’ in R. Wortley and M. Townsley (Eds.), Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis, 2^nd Edition. London: Taylor and Francis.

Ekblom, P. (2014b). * ‘Design and security‘ in M. Gill (Ed.) The Handbook of Security (2nd Edn), 133-156. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Ekblom, P. (2014c). * ‘Securing the knowledge‘ in M.Gill (Ed.) The Handbook of Security (2nd Edn). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Ekblom, P. (2014d). * ‘Designing Products Against Crime’ in Bruinsma, G and Weisburd, D. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Springer Science+Business Media.

Ekblom, P. and Pease, K. (2014). * ‘Innovation and Crime Prevention’ in Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Springer Science+Business Media.

Ekblom, P. (2012c). * ‘The Private Sector and Designing Products against Crime’ in Welsh, B. and Farrington, D. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Crime Prevention, 384-403.Oxford: OUP.

Ekblom. P. (2010). * ‘The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity Theory’. Sage Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention, Vol 1, 139-146. (Note: editorial decision to use ‘theory’.)

Ekblom, P (2008a). * ‘Crime and Communication Technology’, In W. Donsbach (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [also 2^nd Edn. 2014.]

Ekblom, P (2001a). ‘Situational Crime Prevention’ in McLaughlin, E and Muncie J (Eds.) The Sage Dictionary of Criminology. London: Sage.

Journal articles and book chapters

Nikolovska, M., Johnson, S. and Ekblom, P. (2020). ‘“Show this thread”: policing, disruption and mobilisation through Twitter. An analysis of UK law enforcement tweeting practices during the Covid-19 pandemic’. Crime Science, 9.

Borrion, H., Ekblom, P., Alrajeh, D., Borrion, A., Keane, A., Koch, D., Mitchener-Nissen, T. and Toubaline, S. (2020). ‘The Problem with Crime Problem-Solving: Towards a Second Generation POP?’ British Journal of Criminology, 60:19–240.

Willcocks, M., Ekblom, P. and Thorpe, A. (2019). * ‘Less crime, more vibrancy, by design’. In R. Armitage and P. Ekblom (Eds.) Rebuilding Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Strengthening the Links with Crime Science. Milton Park: Taylor and Francis. 216-245.

Ekblom, P. (2019b). * ‘Sharpening up CPTED – towards an ontology based on crime science and ecology’. In R. Armitage and P. Ekblom (Eds.) Rebuilding Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Strengthening the Links with Crime Science. Milton Park: Taylor and Francis. 75-108.

Ekblom, P. and Gill, P. (2018).* ‘Evolution, crime science and terrorism: the case of Provisional IRA weaponry’ in R. Wortley, A. Sidebottom, N. Tilley and G. Laycock (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Crime Science 252-270. Milton Park: Routledge.

Johnson, S.D., Ekblom, P., Laycock, G., Frith, M.J., Sombatruang, N., Valdez, E.R. (2018). * ‘Future crime.’ In: R. Wortley and A. Sidebottom, N. Tilley and G. Laycock (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Crime Science, chap. 30. Milton Park: Taylor and Francis.

Ekblom, P. (2018b). * ‘From threat to debt… or, there is mechanism in my madness’. In G. Farrell and A. Sidebottom (Eds.) Realist Evaluation for Crime Science: Essays in Honour of Nick Tilley. Milton Park: Taylor and Francis. 58-75.

Ekblom, P. (2017e). * ‘Technology, opportunity, crime and crime prevention – current and evolutionary perspectives’ in B. Leclerc and E. Savona (Eds.) Crime Prevention in the 21st Century. New York: Springer.

Ekblom, P. and Gill, M. (2016). * ‘Rewriting the Script: Cross-Disciplinary Exploration and Conceptual Consolidation of the Procedural Analysis of Crime.’ European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research 22(2), 319-339. DOI 10.1007/s10610-015-9291-9.

Ekblom, P. (2016b). * ‘Terrorism – lessons from natural and human co-evolutionary arms races’ in M. Taylor, J. Roach and K. Pease (Eds.), Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism. London: Routledge.

Ekblom, P., Sidebottom, A. and Wortley, R. (2016). * ‘Evolutionary psychological influences on the contemporary causes of terrorist events’ in M. Taylor, J. Roach and K. Pease (Eds.), Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism. London: Routledge.

Ekblom, P. and Hirschfield, A. (2014). * ‘Developing an alternative formulation of SCP principles – the Ds (11 and counting).’ Crime Science, 3:2.

Hirschfield, A., Armitage, R., Ekblom, P. and Roach, J. (2013). * ‘Holding the line: The sustainability of police involvement in crime prevention‘ in Brown, J.M. (Ed.) The Future of Policing. London: Routledge.

Ekblom, P., Armitage, R., Monchuk, L. and Castell, B. (2013). * ‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in the United Arab Emirates – A Suitable Case for Re-Orientation?’ Built Environment, 39 (1): 92-113.

Ekblom, P. (2012d). * ‘Conceptual and Methodological Explorations in Affordance and Counter Terrorism’ in Taylor, M. and Currie, P. (Eds.) Terrorism and Affordance. London: Continuum.

Ekblom, P. (2012e). ‘Citizen participation in crime prevention – capturing practice knowledge through the 5Is framework’ in M. Coester and E. Marks (Eds.) International Perspectives of Crime Prevention 4. Contributions from the 4th and the 5th Annual International Forum 2010 and 2011 within the German Congress on Crime Prevention. Mönchengladbach: Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH.

Ekblom, P. (2012f). * ‘Introduction’; *‘The Security Function Framework’; and ‘Conclusion’ in P. Ekblom (Ed.), Design Against Crime: Crime Proofing Everyday Objects. Crime Prevention Studies 27. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner.

Ekblom, P. (2012g). * ‘Happy returns: ideas brought back from situational crime prevention’s exploration of design against crime’ in G. Farrell and N. Tilley (Eds.) The Reasoning Criminologist: Essays in Honour of Ronald V. Clarke, 163–198. Crime Science series. Cullompton: Willan.

Ekblom, P., Bowers, K., Gamman, L., Sidebottom, A., Thomas, C., Thorpe, A. and Willcocks, M. (2012). * ‘Reducing Handbag Theft in bars’ in P. Ekblom (Ed.), Design Against Crime: Crime Proofing Everyday Objects. Crime Prevention Studies 27. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner.

Meyer, S. and Ekblom, P. (2011). * ‘Specifying the explosion-resistant railway carriage – a desktop test of the Security Function Framework’. Journal of Transportation Security.

Ekblom, P. (2011b). * ‘Deconstructing CPTED… and Reconstructing it for practice, knowledge management and research’, thematic issue of European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research on Updating Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 17:7-28.

Ekblom, P. (2011a). * Guest editor ‘Introduction’, thematic issue of European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research on Updating Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 17:1-6.

Bullock, K. and Ekblom, P. (2010). * ‘Richness, retrievability and reliability – issues in a working knowledge base for good practice in crime prevention’. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 16, 29-47.

Thorpe, A., L. Gamman, P. Ekblom, S. Johnson and A. Sidebottom, (2010). ‘Bike Off 2 – Catalysing Anti-Theft Bike, Bike Parking and Information Design for the 21st Century: an Open Innovation Research Approach’, in T. Inns (Ed.) Designing for the 21st Century: Volume 2. Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings. Routledge.

Bowers, K. Sidebottom, A. and Ekblom, P. (2009). * ‘CRITIC: A Prospective Planning Tool for Crime Prevention Evaluation Designs’. Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2009) 11, 48–70.

Ekblom, P. (2008b). ‘Status Report United Kingdom – Crime Prevention Training in the UK: a brief review’ In M. Coester, E. Marks and A Meyer (Eds.) Qualification in Crime Prevention. Mönchengladbach: Forumverlag Godesberg.

Ekblom, P. (2008c). *‘Designing Products against Crime’. In R. Wortley and L. Mazerolle (Eds.) Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis. Cullompton: Willan.

Ekblom, P. and Sidebottom, A. (2008). * ‘What do you mean, ‘Is it secure?’ Redesigning language to be fit for the task of assessing the security of domestic and personal electronic goods.’ European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 14:61–87.

Ekblom, P. (2007a). * ‘Appropriate Complexity: Capturing and Structuring Knowledge from Impact and Process Evaluations of Crime Reduction, Community Safety and Problem-Oriented Policing’, in E. Hogard, R. Ellis and J. Warren (Eds.) Community Safety: Innovation and Evaluation, Chester: Chester Academic Press.

Ekblom, P. (2007b). * ‘Making Offenders Richer’ in G. Farrell, K. Bowers, S. Johnson and M. Townsley (Eds.), Imagination for Crime Prevention: Essays in Honour of Ken Pease. Crime Prevention Studies 21: Monsey, N.Y.: Criminal Justice Press/ Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.

Ekblom, P. (2006b). ‘Crime’ in Office of Science and Technology, Foresight Intelligent Infrastructure Futures: the Scenarios – Towards 2055 – Perspective and Process’ 17-23. London: Department of Trade and Industry.

Ekblom, P. (2005a). ‘The 5Is Framework: Sharing good practice in crime prevention.’ In E. Marks, A. Meyer and R Linssen (Eds.) Quality in Crime Prevention. Hannover: Landespräventionsrat Niedersachsen.

Roach, J., Ekblom, P. and Flynn, R. (2005). * ‘The Conjunction of Terrorist Opportunity: A Framework for Diagnosing and Preventing Acts of Terrorism.’ Security Journal 18 (3):7-25.

Ekblom, P. (2005b). *‘Designing Products against Crime’ in N. Tilley (Ed.), Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety’. Cullompton: Willan.

Ekblom, P. (2004a). ‘Le Cadre des 5 I’ dans Bruston, P. et Haroune, A. (Eds.) Réseau européen de prévention de la criminalité: (REPC) Description et échange de bonnes pratiques. Paris: Délégation Interministérielle à la Ville.

Ekblom, P. (2004b). ‘Reconciling Evidence of What Works, Knowledge of Crime Reduction and Community Safety Principles, and Values’ Annex 2 of Safer Places: The Planning System and Crime Prevention. London: Department for Communities and Local Government.

Ekblom, P. (2004c). ‘Shared Responsibilities, Pooled Resources: a Partnership Approach to Crime Prevention’, In P. Ekblom and A. Wyvekens A Partnership Approach to Crime Prevention. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.

Ekblom, P. (2004d). * ‘How to Police the Future: Scanning for Scientific and Technological Innovations which Generate Potential Threats and Opportunities in Crime, Policing and Crime Reduction’, in M. Smith and N. Tilley (Eds.), Crime Science: New Approaches to Preventing and Detecting Crime. Cullompton: Willan.

Ekblom, P. (2003). * ‘Organised Crime and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity Framework‘, in A. Edwards and P. Gill (Eds.) Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on global security. London: Routledge.

Ekblom, P. (2002b). * ‘From the Source to the Mainstream is Uphill: The Challenge of Transferring Knowledge of Crime Prevention Through Replication, Innovation and Anticipation.’ In: N. Tilley (Ed.) Analysis for Crime Prevention, Crime Prevention Studies 13: 131-203. Monsey, N.Y.: Criminal Justice Press/ Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.

Ekblom, P. (2002c). Der Partnerschaftsansatz in der Kriminalprävention. Bewährungshilfe – Soziales, Strafrecht, Kriminalpolitik 49, 4, 408-425.

Ekblom, P. (2002d). ‘Towards a European Knowledge Base’ and ‘The Five I’s: Experimental Framework for a Knowledge Base for Crime Prevention Projects’ in European Crime Prevention Conference 2002 vol 1: 62-97. Copenhagen: Danish Crime Prevention Council.

Ekblom, P. (2001b). ‘The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity: a Framework for Crime Reduction Toolkits’ – Crime Reduction website.

Ekblom, P. (2001c). ‘Less Crime, by Design.’ Illustrated website version of paper presented at Royal Society of Arts, London, October 2000.

Ekblom, P. and Tilley, N. (2000). * ‘Going Equipped: Criminology, Situational Crime Prevention and the Resourceful Offender’ British Journal of Criminology 40:376-398.

Ekblom, P. (2000a). ‘The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity – a Tool for Clear, ‘Joined-up’ Thinking about Community Safety and Crime Reduction’ in S. Ballintyne, K. Pease, and V. McLaren, V., (Eds.), Secure foundations: Key issues in crime prevention, crime reduction and community safety. 30-66. London: Institute for Public Policy Research.

Ekblom, P. (2000b). Future Crime Prevention – a ‘Mindset Kit’ for the Seriously Foresighted. UK Foresight Programme project on Crime Prevention. Open ‘Crime Prevention’.

Rogerson, M., Ekblom, P. and Pease, K. (2000). ‘Crime Reduction and the Benefit of Foresight’ in Ballintyne, S., Pease, K. and McLaren, V., (Eds.), Secure foundations: Key issues in crime prevention, crime reduction and community safety. London: Institute for Public Policy Research.

Home Office (2000a).10^th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Agenda Item: Effective crime prevention – keeping pace with new developments Abstracts of relevant research papers commissioned by the UK Home Office.

Home Office (2000b).10^th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Technical workshop: Community involvement in crime prevention. Abstracts of relevant research papers commissioned by the UK Home Office.

Ekblom, P. (1999). * ‘Can we Make Crime Prevention Adaptive by Learning from other Evolutionary Struggles?’, Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention, 8/1: 27-51.

Alexandersson, L., Bersee, T., Ekblom, P,. van Gelderen, F. and Kohl, A. (1999) Assessment report of the experts working in L’viv, Ukraine. Council of Europe Project on Urban Insecurity and its Prevention in the CIS. Strasbourg: COE.

Ekblom, P. (1998a). ‘Situational Crime Prevention’ in Goldblatt, P and Lewis, C (Eds.) (1998). Reducing Offending: An Assessment of Research Evidence on Ways of Dealing with Offending Behaviour. Home Office Research Study No. 187. London: Home Office.

Ekblom, P. (1998b). ‘Renforcer la Sécurité des Communautés Locaux: un Nouveau Cadre de Partenariat au Royaume-Uni’ and ‘Evaluation du Programme Safer Cities: Impact et Processus’ in Ferret, J and Ocqueteau, F (Eds.) Evaluer la police de proximité? Problèmes, concept, méthodes. Paris: INHESJ La Documentation Française.

Ekblom, P. (1998c). Community Safety and the Reduction and Prevention of Crime – a Conceptual Framework for Training and the Development of a Professional Discipline.

Ekblom, P. (1997). * ‘Gearing up against Crime: a Dynamic Framework to Help Designers Keep up with the Adaptive Criminal in a Changing World’, International Journal of Risk, Security and Crime Prevention, 2/4: 249-265.

Ekblom, P., Law, H. and Sutton, M. (1996). * Safer Cities and Domestic Burglary. Home Office Research Study 164. London: Home Office.

Ekblom, P. (1996a). ‘Towards a Discipline of Crime Prevention: a Systematic Approach to its Nature, Range and Concepts’, in T Bennett (Ed.), Preventing Crime and Disorder: Targeting Strategies and Responsibilities, Cambridge Cropwood Series, 43-98. Cambridge: Institute of Criminology.

Ekblom, P. (1996b). * ‘Safer Cities and Residential Burglary: a Summary of Evaluation Results’. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 4.1:22-52.

Ekblom, P. and Pease, K. (1995). * ‘Evaluating Crime Prevention’, in M. Tonry and D. Farrington (Eds.), Building a Safer Society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention, Crime and Justice 19:585-662. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ekblom, P. (1995). * ‘Less Crime, by Design‘. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 539: 114-129 (Special review edition edited by Prof. Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University).

Ekblom, P. (1994a). * ‘Proximal Circumstances: a Mechanism-Based Classification of Crime Prevention‘. Crime Prevention Studies, 2: 185-232.

Ekblom, P. (1992a). * ‘The Safer Cities Programme Impact Evaluation: Problems and Progress‘. Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention, 1:35-51.

Ekblom, P. (1992b).* ‘Urban Crime Prevention: Development of Policy and Practice in England’, Annales Internationales de Criminologie, 30(1-2): 65-82. Republished in Miyazawa, K and Miyazawa, S (1995) Crime Prevention in the Urban Community. Deventer: Kluwer.

Ekblom, P. (1990). ‘Evaluating Crime Prevention: the Management of Uncertainty.’ in C. Kemp (Ed.), Current Issues in Criminological Research. Bristol: Bristol Centre for Criminal Justice.

Ekblom, P. (1988a). ‘Preventing Post Office Robberies in London: Effects and Side-Effects‘. Journal of Security Administration, 11: 36‑43. (Reproduced also in R. V. Clarke (Ed.) (1992) Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies. Albany, NY: Harrow and Heston.

Ekblom, P. (1988b). Getting the Best out of Crime Analysis. Home Office Crime Prevention Unit Paper 10. London: Home Office.

Ekblom, P. and Simon, F. with the assistance of Birdi, S. (1988). Crime and Racial Harassment in Asian-Run Small Shops: the Scope for Prevention. CPU Paper 15. London: Home Office.

Ekblom, P. (1987). * Preventing Robberies at Sub-Post Offices: an Evaluation of a Security Initiative. Home Office Crime Prevention Unit Paper 9. London: Home Office.

Ekblom, P. (1986a). ‘Community Policing: Obstacles and Issues’, in Walker, A., Ekblom, P. and Deakin, N. (Ed. P. Willmott). The debate about community: papers from a seminar on community in social policy. PSI Discussion Paper 13, 16-30. London: Policy Studies Institute.

Ekblom, P. (1986b). * The Prevention of Shop Theft: an Approach through Crime Analysis. Home Office Crime Prevention Unit Paper 5. London: Home Office.

Burrows, J. and Ekblom, P. (1986). ‘Preventing Car Crime: an Initiative Affecting Vehicle Import Procedures’. Home Office Research Bulletin 21. London: Home Office.

Southgate, P. with Ekblom, P. (1986). Police Public Encounters. Home Office Research Study 90. London: HMSO.

Southall, D. and Ekblom, P. (1985). Designing for Vehicle Security: towards a Crime Free Car. Home Office Crime Prevention Unit Paper 4. London: Home Office.

Clarke, R., Ekblom, P., Hough, M. and Mayhew, P. (1985). * ‘Elderly Victims of Crime and Exposure to Risk’. Howard Journal, 24:1‑9.

Southgate, P. and Ekblom, P. (1984). Contacts between Police and Public: Findings from the British Crime Survey. Home Office Research Study 77. London: HMSO.

Ekblom, P. and Heal, K. (1982). The Police Response to Calls from the Public. Home Office RPU Paper 9. London: Home Office.

Heal, K. and Ekblom, P. (1981). Coping with Public Demand: a Challenge for Police Management. Police Studies 4.

Ekblom, P. (1979a). ‘A Crime Free Car?’ Home Office Research Bulletin 7. London: Home Office.

Ekblom, P. (1979b). Police Truancy Patrols in Home Office Research Study 55 (p.17ff.). London: HMSO.