RT Article
T1 Regulating Crime and the International Crime Drop
JF International criminal justice review
VO 31
IS 3
SP 257
OP 259
A1 Clarke, Ronald
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1765098130
AB 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.
K1 the international crime drop
K1 the security hypothesis
K1 reducing opportunities for crime
K1 Crime Science
K1 Environmental Criminology
K1 Positivism
K1 Colquhoun, Patrick
K1 Bentham, Jeremy
DO 10.1177/1057567720903378