ABSTRACT
Building on the results from the previous chapter, this chapter focuses on the relationship between active residential guardianship and property crime. With guardianship defined as a crime prevention strategy, a fundamental test of the concept is whether or not it is negatively associated with crime in a real world setting. Having established the environmental factors that have been linked to crime, this chapter compares the relative contribution of residential guardianship intensity compared to the 15 other environmental variables presented in the previous chapter in explaining property crime on residential street segments. This will represent the ultimate test of the robustness of active residential guardianship intensity and how it measures up in comparison to other well established, property crime-related variables. In addition, this chapter will examine differences in the intensity of guardianship during the daytime and at nighttime and will discuss the implications of these for property crime prevention and control.
