New Directions for Crime Displacement: The Impact of Removing a Crime Generator

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Abstract

The current literature on crime displacement demonstrates support for diffusion of crime control benefits with minimal crime displacement. However, a recent review of displacement methodologies finds a lack of temporal, ethnographic and qualitative research in this area (Johnson et al. 2014). The current study combines numerous data sources in a high crime city in Canada, including calls for service data, incident data, focus groups, interviews, observations and content analyses to examine the impact of removing a crime generator. The decline in crime and calls for service after the removal are significant, however new and more violent hot spots emerge. Implications for opportunity reduction theory and CPTED practitioners are discussed.

Author

• Tarah Hodgkinson, Simon Fraser University