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Prevention or displacement?

Dennis Challinger

Published in:
National overview on crime prevention : proceedings of a conference held 4-6 June 1991
Sandra McKillop and Julia Vernon (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 18452 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 15)

Abstract

An unintended effect of crime control which cannot be ignored by crime prevention proponents is displacement. This paper outlines the major types of displacement, including spatial displacement, tactical displacement, target displacement and functional displacement, and illustrates how they beset most crime prevention work. Challinger encourages practitioners to acknowledge the possible displacement that may follow their work.