Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The traditional approach
  • Policing places and problems
  • SMART approach
  • Civil remedies for crime control purposes
  • What follows
  • Places, crimes and prevention perspectives
  • Places and crimes
  • Crime prevention perspectives
  • Side effects of place control programs
  • Summary
  • Policing places with drug problems : Oaklandʹs SMART approach
  • The Oakland site
  • The SMART program
  • Program implementation
  • Summary
  • The SMART program impact
  • City-wide trends in drug activity
  • City-wide and SMART site trends
  • SMART impact on place appearances
  • Spatial, social and prevention influences
  • Target places and intervention dosage
  • Summary
  • Displacement and diffusion effects
  • Prior research
  • Measuring displacement and diffusion effects
  • Change in catchment areas
  • People contacted in catchment areas
  • Offender movement patterns
  • Summary
  • Conclusions
  • What changes a place?
  • The challenges of policing places with drug problems
  • Successfully policing places with drug problems
  • Final word