Sidebottom, AL;
Tilley, N;
(2017)
Designing systems against crime: introducing leaky systems.
In:
Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety.
(pp. 254-273).
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This chapter presents a new form of crime concentration: that which emerges unintentionally from variations in intentionally produced regulations, policies and procedures. It suggests nine ways in which the configuration of systems might facilitate crime. The chapter focuses on the distribution of crime across similar systems. It presents a case study of the frequency of online romance scams across dating websites, taken here to be an example of a purposively designed system. The chapter discusses the link between systems, places and crime concentrations. Systems can provide incentives for criminal behaviour. The development of some systems unintentionally facilitates crime. The apparently ‘mindless’ violence and disorder that is found in some entertainment and city centre areas late at night may be reduced by a number of system changes. Data were acquired through a Freedom of Information request to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau based at the City of London Police.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Designing systems against crime: introducing leaky systems |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315724393 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724393 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201145 |
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