Across the globe, challenging and contentious issues about community safety and security increasingly exercise governments and police forces - as well as, for example, town planners and car-park designers. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the topic of crime reduction, this collection offers foundational scholarship of the subject.

The final volume in the collection ("Crime Prevention in Action") gathers together the best cutting-edge work to highlight key examples of empirical crime reduction research in action.It includes research focusing on: the need to incentivize crime reduction to persuade more people to take responsibility for reducing a greater variety of crime; the effects of apparently subtle strategies (such as changes to street lighting); and, anticipatory changes (whereby crime seems to reduce in advance of reduction initiatives). Volume IV also includes assessments of the future developments in the field. "Crime Reduction" is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. An essential reference collection, it is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and practitioners as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.