Author Description

Crimes are committed when they are easy to commit. The research suggests as many as forty percent crime in any society are the product of easy opportunity. The present research is a pioneering contribution to a lesser known area in criminology in India. Situations! Crime Prevention (SCP) as technique has received tremendous success in curtailing the crime rate by reducing the opportunities for committing crime by making it difficult for a criminal to commit crime. The present research is the outcome of author's study of SCP in the UK as Commonwealth Fellow. The SCP model has been successfully implemented in the UK and has produced encouraging result. Inspired by this study, the author undertook a major research project funded by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi to study the scope of SCP in India. The present book is based on the findings of these two studies. In India also a sizable number of crime results from the easy opportunity and due the lack of any effective thinking on crime prevention. This empirical research has been conducted in several parts of Madhya Pradesh on a sample of more than 600 crimes. It was found that SCP measures like target hardening and crime reduction technique of opportunity reduction can prove to be a deterrent to crime.