A Companion Framework for Causes of Crime and Preventive Interventions: The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity

Chapter 8 stated how conceptual clarity was vital for the framework for knowledge management of good practice; and in particular, how crime prevention interventions — what’s done to block, weaken or divert causes of criminal events — should be central to descriptions of preventive action. 5Is therefore needs a versatile and rigorous language for describing causes and interventions so the latter can be readily selected, replicated and innovatively modified, or created afresh from first principles. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.