eprintid: 10072541
rev_number: 33
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/07/25/41
datestamp: 2019-10-02 14:34:49
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type: book_section
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creators_name: Borrion, H
title: Engineering
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: This chapter examines the contribution of engineering sciences to crime reduction. Beginning
with a conceptual discussion about what engineering is, the chapter then uses the concept of
system to draw links between engineering and crime reduction. It points to the fact that
contemporary systems cannot be neatly divided between purely physical and purely social
systems, and that many systems relevant to crime (e.g. criminal justice system, surveillance and
monitoring systems, urban ecosystems, etc.) are made of people, built structures, technological
devices and information. Consequently, the chapter argues that a significant part of crime
science – that concerned with the development and management of security systems or less
criminogenic systems – is a form of (security) engineering, and that better understanding the
points of interaction between engineering and criminology is a necessary step to advance crime
science’s scholarship.
date: 2018-11-27
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://www.crcpress.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Crime-Science/Wortley-Sidebottom-Tilley-Laycock/p/book/9780415826266
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1649611
isbn_13: 9780415826266
lyricists_name: Borrion, Herve
lyricists_id: HBORR81
actors_name: Austen, Jennifer
actors_id: JAUST66
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: London, UK
book_title: Routledge Handbook of Crime Science
edition: 1st
editors_name: Wortley, R
editors_name: Sidebottom, A
editors_name: Tilley, N
editors_name: Laycock, G
citation:        Borrion, H;      (2018)    Engineering.                    In: Wortley, R and Sidebottom, A and Tilley, N and Laycock, G, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Crime Science.    Routledge: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
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