What is crime science?
Briefly, crime science is a radical departure from old ways of thinking about the problem of crime in society. Traditional criminology has concentrated on what happens after crimes are committed; that is, how we respond to a criminal act and how we define crime. Crime Science is a new approach intended to get upstream of crime and to proactively prevent it rather than merely respond to it. It examines those crimes which occur most frequently and then develops policy options which close them off. This approach can work to reduce both the inclination, and the opportunity, to commit crime. Crime science takes the issue of crime one step further than traditional criminology and seeks contributions from inter-related disciplines including: psychology, geography, medicine, town planning and architecture. The inter disciplinary nature of crime science allows the development of a coherent strategy to influence both product and building design, and to examine the social and psychological factor
