ABSTRACT
Such insights help to explain why situational crime prevention (SCP) has such a limited usefulness when it comes to the control and reduction of crimes that can be understood as ‘urban edgework’. In situating the Katzian excitement model of crime and the ‘control-excitement’ model in relation to SCP, the aim here is to encourage administrative criminologists to develop what (for want of a better term) might be described as a mixed model that can be deployed in that traditional testing ground of crime prevention research, the town/city centre (Hope 1985).
