Identifying, explaining, and targeting burglary ‘hot spots’
Identifying, explaining, and targeting burglary ‘hot spots’
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识别、解释和瞄准入室盗窃“热点”
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1995
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T. Bennett
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T. Bennett
工作队计划的数据收集和犯罪分析部分（虽然尚未完成）已经产生了一些关于剑桥入室盗窃的有用信息，这些信息可能会为预防犯罪策略提供信息。研究表明，住宅盗窃案在剑桥的分布并不均匀，而是倾向于集中在城市的西北部。研究还表明，即使在这些入室盗窃率高的地区，也存在犯罪的“热点”和“冷点”。这些热点地区在所有入室盗窃中所占的比例相对较大。热点地区入室盗窃案频发的一个原因是多次入室盗窃案频发，在该地区记录在案的所有入室盗窃案中，多达35%是多次入室盗窃案中的一起。另一个可能导致入室盗窃数量高的因素是环境调查中确定的大量进出和逃生路线。也许最重要的因素解释了高数量的入室盗窃案是该地区接近的居住地已知的罪犯。因此，热点站点为居住在这些地区的罪犯提供了一个简单而有益的当地机会。在第二阶段的工作中，剑桥入室盗窃工作队将整理第一阶段收集到的信息，并制定适当的干预策略。我们的目标是继续监测该地区的罪行和罪犯，并评估所执行方案的成效。
ConclusionThe data-gathering and crime analysis part of the Task Force programme (while not yet completed) has generated some useful information about burglary in Cambridge which might inform a crime prevention strategy. The research has shown that residential burglary is not evenly distributed across Cambridge, but tends to be clustered in the northwest of the City. It has also shown that even in these high-burglary areas there are ‘hot spots’ and ‘cold spots’ of crime. These hot spots account for a relatively large proportion of all burglary.One factor contributing to the high burglary counts in the hot spot area is the high number of repeat burglaries, with as many as 35 percent of all burglaries recorded in the area being one of a repeat series of burglaries. Another factor which might have contributed to the high burglary counts was the abundance of access and escape routes of the kind identified in the environmental survey. Perhaps the most important factor which explains the high number of burglaries was the closeness of the area to the place of residence of known offenders. The hot spot site thus provides a local source of easy and rewarding opportunities for offenders who live in these areas.In the second stage of its work, the Cambridge Burglary Task Force will collate the information that has been collected in the first stage and devise appropriate intervention strategies. We aim to continue to monitor crime and criminals in the area and to evaluate the effectiveness the programmes implemented.