Tackling Burglary
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This page contains historical archive information on what emerged from the Home Office's Reducing Burglary Initiative (1999-2002).
The Good Practice Guide consists of a number of reports and research documents that may help practitioners to reduce burglary.
The most important point is that there is no single universal solution. Burglary problems and their causes vary from location to location and these also apply to the best approaches to reduce them. Something that works in one area may not work in another. Those that take time to analyse and understand their local problems and base their intervention on that analysis have the best chance of being successful
The Reducing Burglary Initiative (RBI)
The Reducing Burglary Initiative funded 250 local burglary reduction projects around the country, and was split into three rounds between 1999 and 2002. The overall impact of this Initiative has been evaluated and lessons about what works most cost-effectively have already been learnt.
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Burglary Prevention: Early lessons from the Crime Reduction Programme - Advice for local authorities intending to submit bids regarding plans for reducing burglary and on the formulation of strategies to reduce crime generally.
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Developing Crime Reduction Plans: Some Examples from the RBI - The process of developing crime reduction plans, from identifying the problem to costing interventions.
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Making Partnership Work: Emerging Findings from the RBI - Ensuring that partnerships exist in more than just name and are effective.
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Planning for Partnership - How to work in partnership when developing, negotiating and delivering RBI projects.
The research below takes a closer look at some of the RBI projects.
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Installing Alley-gates: Practical Lessons from Burglary Prevention Projects - Guidance on practical issues that must be addressed when considering alley-gating.
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The Alleygater’s Guide to Gating Alleys - Contains information about the effects that gating can have on communities. It discusses how local residents can go about putting a scheme into effect.
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Summer Splash Schemes 2000: Findings from six case studies - Schemes aimed at engaging with young people in sporting and other activities. Information on setting up and running the schemes and the impact on crime and disorder.
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Investigating Burglary - Evaluation of three contrasting RBI projects that sought to reduce burglary through innovative detection strategies.
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Spreading the word - The value and use of publicity in burglary prevention.
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Preventing Residential Burglary in Cambridge - This report describes joint work undertaken by the Cambridgeshire Police and Cambridge Domestic Burglary Task Force to implement a strategy to counter domestic burglary in the city.
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Repeat Victimisation Domestic Burglary Project - Lessons from efforts to tackle repeat domestic burglaries across the five Tees Valley Basic Command Units.
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Hotel Burglary Project - Research conducted to evaluate a project aimed to reduce burglary from visitors to hotels in a town where tourism is a key industry.
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Case Studies based on RBI Round 1 - Selected site reports, including:
Reducing Burglary Initiative: early findings
Project Summary Rochdale
Project Summary Fordbridge, Solihull
Project Summary Yew Tree, Sandwell
Project Summary Stirchley, Birmingham
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Older victims of Burglary
Thames Valley Police
Thames Valley Police have produced a very useful document called Tackling Burglary: A Survey of Research. This in depth report aims to identify what interventions have been shown to work, based on robust evaluative research, in reducing and preventing burglary. The report is attached below and is divided into specific sections for ease of use:
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Effective Practice Database
To find out about more crime reduction projects and initiatives that practitioners are implementing around the country please go to our Effective Practice Database and search the various categories. You can also post your project on this site to share with other practitioners.
Last update: Monday, July 21, 2008