Library
Readings on Problem-Oriented Policing
The core readings of problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention, many online and available for download.
Unpublished Documents
Search our archives of case studies, organizational plans, problem analysis tools, and scholarly reports.
Special Manuals and Guides
Crime Analysis for Problem Solvers: In 60 Small Steps
By Ronald V. Clarke and John E. Eck
Intelligence Analysis for Problem Solvers
By John E. Eck and Ronald V. Clarke
Download PDF 6.7 MB
Implementing POP: Leading, Structuring, and Managing a Problem-Oriented Police Agency
By Michael S. Scott and Stuart Kirby
Download PDF 2.5 MB Annotated Bibliography PDF
Effective Policing and Crime Prevention: A Problem-Oriented Guide for Mayors, City Managers, and County Executives
By Joel B. Plant and Michael S. Scott
Download PDF 3.1 MB
Policing Terrorism: An Executive's Guide
By Graeme R. Newman and Ronald V. Clarke
Download PDF 5.4 MB
POP-related Publications
Reducing Fear of Crime: Strategies for Police
By Gary Cordner (2010)
Download (English) PDF 2.8 MB
This guide helps police understand what fear of crime is, why it matters, and why it should be an important target of police attention. The guide provides a number of tools and techniques that should enable any police department to successfully add fear reduction to its operational strategy and organizational bottom line.
Download (Portuguese) PDF 1 MB
A Policymaker's Guide to Building Our Way Out of Crime
By Bill Geller and Lisa Belsky (2009)
This policymaker’s guide is drawn from Building Our Way Out of Crime: The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer Partnerships, by the same authors, and is aimed at elected and appointed officials at all levels of government, community development leaders, financial investment strategists, private foundation executives, and others. It covers what is known about the effectiveness of such partnerships in controlling crime and disorder, its feasibility in diverse cities, and the policy or political incentives and disincentives to adopting this strategy. It summarizes three crime-reduction and neighborhood revitalization case studies from Providence, Rhode Island; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Download PDF (7MB)
Readings on Situational Crime Prevention and Crime Science
Background Reading on Situational Crime Prevention
Crime Prevention Studies
Crime Prevention Studies is published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Volumes 1-15 are available in full text. Selected chapters are also provided for other volumes. Abstracts of the entire series beginning in 1993 to the present are available.
Crime Science
Publications of the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
JDiBrief is an online library of one-page briefing notes about crime and security problems, and analytical techniques that can be applied to understand them better. Written by experts in their field for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, these briefing notes present examples of, and recommendations for, effective practice in crime reduction, policing and the security industry.
Knife Crime: A Problem Solving Guide
Situational Crime Prevention Evaluation Database
This is a scientifically selected collection of studies that assess the effectiveness of situational crime prevention for diverse problems, contexts and techniques. Many of the studies are available in full text.
Search, browse or analyze the studies online.
Links
Web sites offering additional useful POP resources
More Resources
COVID-19 Special Papers
A series of papers focused on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for police agencies and other organisations with an interest in the topic. Click here to access these papers.
Glossary
Problem-Oriented Private Security
Crime Analysis for Problem Solving Security Professionals in 25 Small Steps
By Karim H. Vellani, CPP, CSC
Download PDF 1 MB
In an easy 25 steps, this manual shows security professionals how to select and implement appropriate countermeasures to reduce the opportunities for the everyday crimes that are the most common threats to assets and targets that security professionals must protect. Drawing on problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention, the manual is essential reading for security professionals, facility managers, risk managers, property managers, as well as for both public and private police who are concerned with everyday crime problems in business settings.
CRISP reports: Connecting Research in Security to Practice
Published by the ASIS Foundation
Fatigue Effects and Countermeasures in 24/7 Security Operations PDF
Tackling the Insider Threat PDF
Strategies to Detect and Prevent Workplace Dishonesty PDF
Preventing Gun Violence in the Workplace PDF
Lost Laptops = Lost Data: Measuring Costs, Managing Threats PDF
From the Ground Up: Security for Tall Buildings PDF
Strategies to Detect and Prevent Workplace Dishonesty PDF
Mass Homicides by Employees in the American Workplace PDF
Situational Crime Prevention and Supply Chain Security PDF
Sports Team Travel Security PDF
Archaeological Site Protection PDF