Abstract
Can a fruitful police surveillance scheme be based on supposedly increased risk immediately after and around a previous burglary (‘near repeat phenomenon’)? An experiment in Amstelveen has been set up and analysed for this purpose. Some neighbourhoods got a ‘near repeat surveillance’ scheme, and the occurrence of burglary in those areas has been compared with control neighbourhoods elsewhere in town. We observed a change in the near repeat pattern in the experimental area, but no net effect on burglary rates, presumably because of large between-neighbourhood variance in incidence.
Original language | Dutch |
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Pages (from-to) | 336-349 |
Journal | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie |
Volume | 54 |
Issue number | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |