Generating Ideas

The next stage involves generating ideas on how to tackle the priorities agreed. It is possible to intervene at many different points to reduce the chances of a crime taking place. For example, interventions may involve:

• Increased surveillance and improving design
• Changes in the way parking areas are designed or managed
• Targeted enforcement
• Reducing the market for stolen goods.
• Targeted work with young people at risk of vehicle crime

Partners can produce a surprising number of options based on their knowledge of the area and their awareness of their own roles and responsibilities within the community. In plotting the different options it is helpful to distinguish between long and short term measures and between those which relate to:

• offenders and/or those at risk of offending
• the victims or target
• the physical environment
• the social environment

Generating ideas can be helped by going systematically through the generic list of interventions set out under ‘Interventions’ in the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity.