Crime Prevention, Security and Community Safety Using the 5Is Framework

by P. Ekblom

Overview

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book presents a carefully-designed system of good practice, the 5Is, which handles the complexities of real world prevention, this aims to improve the performance of prevention, and advance process evaluation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230210363
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/17/2010
Series:	Crime Prevention and Security Management
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

PAUL EKBLOM is a Professor at the Design Against Crime Research Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK. He combines work on design with practical frameworks for general prevention.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Implementation Failure: The Dismal Story Implicated Ignorance and Culpable Confusion: The Contribution to Implementation Failure of Deficient Knowledge and Articulacy The Gift to be Simple? How Avoiding the Issue of Complexity Contributes to Implementation Failure Appropriate Complexity Specification for a Knowledge Framework Introducing the 5Is Framework Conceptual Companions to 5Is: Defining Crime Prevention Activities, Institutional Contexts and Values A Companion Framework for Causes of Crime and Preventive Interventions: The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity Presenting the Is in Detail Intelligence Intervention Implementation Involvement Impact – and Process Evaluation Conclusion End notes References Index

Editorial Reviews

"Ekblom can be your guide."

- Professional Security blog, Feb 2011

'The clarity of the style makes the book enjoyable and allows the author's reasoning to be easily followed...Ekblom identifies ground-level practitioners, delivery managers, and policy makers as his principal audience. Given the extensive use of examples from past crime-prevention projects, his book is actually a valid support for each of these three groups in their work. The book may also be attractive to researchers and students in applied criminology, as the 5Is framework is not only a practical, but also a research, tool.'

- European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

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