ABSTRACT
Crime prevention has always been at the heart of environmental criminology. In fact, C. Ray Jeffery coined the term “environmental criminology” on the last page of his 1971 book, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design ( Jeffery, 1971, p. 279). As we will discuss below, crime prevention was based on theoretical frameworks quite different from what we call environmental criminology today. These theoretical frameworks were used to justify crime prevention activities. But, as you know well by now, environmental criminology has developed its own set of theories that are now the theoretical support for crime prevention. As such, crime prevention and environmental criminology theories have come full circle.
