ABSTRACT
Place-based crime prevention programmes and planning in the United States remain as the province of local and state governments, even though in recent years the federal government has increased its influence in these fields through a number of grant programmes aimed primarily at housing and local law enforcement. While there are a variety of explanations for the jurisdictional ‘place’ of environmental crime prevention design within local government in the modern United States, much of the reasoning for its location can be traced to the operation of federalism and to funding approaches, some of which we mention here by example. Moreover, just because local governments have the power to implement many crime prevention strategies, it does not necessarily follow that they will do so, for reasons to be made clear.
