RT Article
T1 Understanding and preventing hit-and-run driving: a crime script analysis
JF Crime prevention and community safety
VO 20
IS 1
SP 16
OP 29
A1 Hopkins, Matt
A2 Chivers, Sally 1972-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700197606
AB Although a small body of research has explored drivers’ decisions to leave the scene of a road traffic collision (hit-and-run), little research has explored how understanding the processes of hit-and-run collisions could inform prevention strategies. Drawing upon findings from a literature review and in-depth interviews with 52 convicted hit-and-run drivers, a crime script approach is utilised as a heuristic device to explore the precursors, immediate aftermath and longer-term aftermath of hit-and-run events. This method allows for motivational factors to be identified. Then, utilising Clarke’s techniques of situational crime prevention as a guiding framework, possibilities for the prevention of hit-and-run are presented.
K1 Hit-and-run
K1 Crime scripts
K1 Crime prevention
DO 10.1057/s41300-017-0036-1