Crime science is the study of crime, rather than just the offenders, as happens in other branches of criminology, in order to provide ways and means to prevent, detect and solve crimes. It involves a number of functional disciplines and often draws on the fields of statistics, environmental design, forensics, policing, sociology as well as many other sciences to analyse crimes, both at an individual as well as a collective level. Common stereotype of a criminal A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law. ... Criminology is a sub-field of sociology dealing with matters related to crime and criminal behavior. ... For Wikipedia statistics, see m:Statistics Statistics is the science and practice of developing human knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ...
Crimescience is the study of crime in order to find ways to prevent, detect and solve crimes ethically and with regard to the broader social implications of interventions.
Three features distinguish crimescience from criminology: it embraces the physical, computer and engineering sciences as well as the social; it focuses on crime rather than criminals, and it is single-minded about cutting crime, rather than studying it for its own sake.
Crimescience was conceived by the British broadcaster Nick Ross in the late 1990s in order to recruit scientific methods to crime prevention, with encouragement from the then Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir John Stevens and Professor Ken Pease.
Early policing stressed that the principal duty of police was to prevent crime rather than detect it.[2] Crimescience focuses on using science in creative and unprecedented ways to prevent crime.
Crimescience acknowledges habitual offenders and studies ways to prevent their crimes (as well as identifying those who should be fully prosecuted because of recidivist behavior).
The second premise in crimescience is that crime occurs where there is opportunity, and that opportunity itself can be a cause of crime.
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