ABSTRACT
How do we account for a country's crime prevention practice to an international audience; and why should particular institutional forms and agency practices appear to be more successful or popular at certain times and places, both within and between jurisdictions, than at others? The intention of this book is to take these questions forward; the purpose of this chapter is to provide an account of a particularly English experience — the growth of situational crime prevention as a governmental crime prevention programme — in a way that provides some points of contact with other country's experience (Hope and Sparks 2000).
