UNDERSTANDING CAR PARKS, CRIME AND CCTV: Evaluation Lessons from Safer Cities

Softcover. Police Research Group Crime Prevention Unit Series Paper 42. The Safer Cities Programme was a Home Office crime prevention initiative which operated through 20 projects in England. The projects provided financial and other support for a wide variety of local crime prevention schemes. This report was the first 'thematic' study of such schemes. The effectiveness of closed circuit television (CCTV) in car parks was chosen for study reflecting the importance of controlling car-related offending and the increasing interest in CCTV as a crime management tool. With Appendix, References and Crime Prevention Unit Papers. 33pp. trade size softcover. Nr F. with no creasing to covers.