eprintid: 10064291
rev_number: 23
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datestamp: 2019-02-27 12:52:19
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creators_name: Ekblom, P
creators_name: Gill, P
title: Evolution, Crime Science and Terrorism: The Case of Provisional IRA Weaponry
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F52
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Crime and terrorism are not static problems. They change on timescales from days to decades. In part, this flux stems from offenders adapting to exploit opportunities afforded by exogenous social and technological developments in society, and to cope with threats from other offenders. But significantly too it derives from arms races between offenders and those on the security side. On the security side, however, the consensus among change-minded commentators has been that ‘contemporary crime control policies are hopelessly static’ (Cohen et al., 1995:216; see also Dietl, 2008). Ekblom (1997, 2016a) argues that to win campaigns rather than merely individual battles against criminals and terrorists, we must routinely out-innovate adaptive offenders against a background of technological and social change that may first favour one side, and then the other. The classic example is Shover’s (1996) study of safes and safe-breakers, where new, emerging technologies including combination locks, cutting tools, new hardened alloy casings and so forth flipped the advantage back and forth between the opponents.
date: 2018-12-30
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203431405-19
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1613510
doi: 10.4324/9780203431405-19
isbn_13: 9781135981730
lyricists_name: Ekblom, Paul
lyricists_name: Gill, Paul
lyricists_id: PJEKB10
lyricists_id: PGILL80
actors_name: Novi, Maya
actors_id: MNOVI52
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: London, UK
pagerange: 252-270
book_title: Routledge Handbook of Crime Science
editors_name: Wortley, R
editors_name: Sidebottom, A
editors_name: Tilley, N
editors_name: Laycock, G
citation:        Ekblom, P;    Gill, P;      (2018)    Evolution, Crime Science and Terrorism: The Case of Provisional IRA Weaponry.                    In: Wortley, R and Sidebottom, A and Tilley, N and Laycock, G, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Crime Science. (pp. 252-270).   Routledge: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
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