Regulating Crime and the International Crime Drop

Michael Quinn’s article reveals that Jeremy Bentham strongly endorsed the suggestions of Patrick Colquhoun, a London magistrate, for reducing the myriad of tempting opportunities for crime in large cities like London. However, it was Colquhoun’s other, positivist ideas about training the poor to res...

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Autor principal: Clarke, Ronald (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: International criminal justice review
Año: 2021, Volumen: 31, Número: 3, Páginas: 257-259
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
the international crime drop
the security hypothesis
reducing opportunities for crime
Crime Science
Environmental Criminology
Positivism
Colquhoun, Patrick
Bentham, Jeremy
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Sumario:Michael Quinn’s article reveals that Jeremy Bentham strongly endorsed the suggestions of Patrick Colquhoun, a London magistrate, for reducing the myriad of tempting opportunities for crime in large cities like London. However, it was Colquhoun’s other, positivist ideas about training the poor to resist these temptations that helped determine crime policy for the next 150 years. This positivist agenda has recently been criticized by environmental criminologists and crime scientists, who have revived Colquhoun’s ideas about reducing opportunities for crime and who have advanced the security hypothesis as the explanation for the international drop in crime.
ISSN:1556-3855
DOI:10.1177/1057567720903378