Citizen‐based Crime Control Activity and Victimization Risks
An Examination of Displacement and Free‐rider Effects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9679795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terance D Miethe (0000-0002-7771-7865, Virginia Tech, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-439 |
| Publication date | 1991-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1991.tb01073.x |
| OpenAlex | W2019883691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 21 |
A common criticism of crime control activities is that such efforts simply redistribute crime to more vulnerable locales and persons rather than prevent it. This displacement effect has been widely assumed but rarely evaluated in previous studies. Using a sample of 5,302 Seattle residents who live on 600 city blocks, this study examines the crime‐reduction benefits of safety precautions and whether either displacement or a “free‐rider” effect best characterizes how the target‐hardening activities of immediate neighbors influence risks of burglary, property theft, and vandalism. The results of this study indicate that only individuals' risks of burglary victimization were significantly reduced by protective action. Contrary to both displacement and free‐rider hypotheses, individuals' risks and aggregate rates of victimization were largely unaffected by the protective actions of neighbors. The paper concludes with a discussion of these findings and their implications for public policy on crime prevention
Action (physics · Business · Control (management · Crime control · Crime prevention · Criminal justice · Criminology · Displacement (psychology · Economics · Property crime · Violent crime · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Planning for Crime Prevention
The impact of city block type on residential burglary
Diffusion of Crime Control Benefits
Paws on the Street
Preventing Repeat Victimization
Calling the police as an interdependent security game
Assessing the Extent of Crime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits
Juvenile Crime Prevention in Hong Kong
Crime prevention and coping mechanisms in neighbourhoods
Opportunity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Evaluating Crime Prevention Scheme Success
Dogs and Crime
Fear of Crime and Individual Crime Protective Actions in Israel
Property Crime Victimisation
When crime reporting goes high-tech
Fear and Withdrawal from Urban Life
The Impact of Out‐of‐state Prison Population on State Homicide Rates
Does Crime Just Move Around the Corner? A Controlled Study of Spatial Displacement and Diffusion of Crime Control Benefits
Guardianship in Context
Private and Collective Protection in Urban Areas
Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime
Burglar and Fire Alarms
Coping with crime
The Reasoning Criminal
Community crime prevention
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Crime Prevention and the Displacement Phenomenon
Opportunity, Choice, and Criminal Victimization
Residential Security
Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Understanding Crime Displacement
Andean Indian Village 1
Situational” Crime Prevention
Social Differentiation in Criminal Victimization
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |