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.

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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.

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