4 Developmental crime prevention -- Early intervention and risk-focused prevention -- Some 'model' early prevention programmes -- Concepts and controversies -- Jack's story -- New directions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 Community crime prevention -- Background -- This chapter -- The development of community crime prevention -- Promoting effectiveness -- Promoting legitimacy -- The principles of community crime prevention -- Informal social control -- Opportunity reduction -- The practices of community crime prevention -- Neighbourhood Watch -- Community policing -- Implementing community crime prevention -- Mobilising citizens and communities -- Mobilising the police -- The outcomes of community crime prevention -- Establishing outcomes -- The effectiveness of Neighbourhood Watch -- The effectiveness of community policing -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Seven misconceptions of situational crime prevention -- Introduction -- Situational prevention is simplistic and atheoretical -- The role of opportunity in crime -- The role of excuses and provocations -- Summary -- Situational prevention has not been shown to work -- it displaces crime and often makes it worse -- Displacement and escalation -- Diffusion of benefits and anticipatory benefits -- Adaptation -- Evaluation strategies -- Situational prevention diverts attention from the root causes of crime -- Situational prevention is a conservative, managerial approach to crime -- Situational prevention promotes a selfish, exclusionary society -- The poor will suffer -- Gated communities -- Exclusion -- SCP promotes Big Brother and restricts personal freedoms -- Situational prevention blames the victim -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 7 Preventing repeat and near repeat crime concentrations -- Introduction -- New technology crimes -- Near repeats - hotspots and hot products