Preventing Repeat Residential Burglary Victimization
This chapter reviews evaluations of the prevention of repeat residential burglary. These evaluations are a subset of the evaluations relating to the prevention of repeat victimization. The review methodology aims to follow that of the systematic review process proposed by the Campbell Collaboration, which has produced a series of recent reviews including, Farrington and Welsh (2002) and the set of reviews edited by Farrington and Welsh (2001). In keeping with that format, the authors acknowledge a possible interest: We have both previously worked on repeat victimization prevention efforts and elsewhere contended that preventing repeat victimization is a potentially attractive crime prevention strategy.
Repeat victim support
SUMMARY The occurrence of a crime may be regarded as a good predictor of where and whena further crime will occur. In consequence, a practical form of support for victimsmay well be the prevention of repeat victimization. To a variable and largely unknownextent, this approach is already being implemented by Victim Support volunteers.Making such practice routine might provide a worthwhile supplement to the serviceswhich Victim Support already offers. Some ways are suggested in which this approachmight be developed. The effectiveness of such an approach would be measured interms of customer (victim) satisfaction and lower than expected rates of swift repeatvictimizations. It is stressed that Victim Support may turn out not to be a viableplatform for the delivery of combined support-prevention services, although it shouldbe the agency first considered for this role. Possible experimental test-beds for suchan approach are proposed. INTRODUCTIONThere is an urgent need for good data to guide the allocation of scarceresources. Victim services are also at an early stage of evolution, sothat practice and priorities will need to be kept under constant reviewas better information becomes available.Helen Reeves, Director of Victim Support, 1988, p. 206The Victim Support (hereafter VS) movement has improved the lot ofthe crime victim in practical ways. No less important, as any criminolo-gical reading list and party political conference will attest, has been itsrole in moving victim interests towards the centre of criminal justiceconcern from their previously marginal position. As the quotation from
Targeting oral anticoagulation
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2000) 68, 4–5; doi: 10.1067/mcp.2000.108197