This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation. With contributions from colleagues, co-authors and former students, many of whom are leading scholars in their own right, the thirteen essays which make up this volume contain both personal reflections and analysis of the prominent topics in Professor Tilley’s forty years of scholarship.
Drawing on the pioneering work of Nick Tilley and bringing together leading scholars from around the world, this book explores the value and legacy of crime policy evaluation research in criminology and crime science.
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1 Nick Tilley: the Wizard of Whitby |
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PART I On realist evaluation |
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2 Nick Tilley: an academic life in six scenes |
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3 Realist evaluation and Bayesian statistics: a marriage made in heaven? |
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4 The links between realistic evaluation and situational crime prevention |
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5 From threat to debt ... or, there is mechanism in my madness |
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PART II On research and evidence |
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6 The virtues of rubbish research: a novel way of measuring the impact of crime prevention interventions in public spaces |
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7 Challenges for EMMIE as a realist evaluation framework |
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8 Second science? The future of historical science in criminology |
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PART III On policing and crime prevention |
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9 Did violence fall after property crime? |
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10 A Nick Tilley perspective on preventing opportunistic insurance fraud |
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11 A problem-oriented account of organised crime in the United Kingdom |
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12 Policing and preventing crime in partnership in the United Kingdom |
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13 Units of work and units of analysis |
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Graham Farrell is Professor at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds. He has published many studies relating to Crime Science. He has been fortunate, both professionally and personally, to know and learn from Nick Tilley for 25 years, including the last decade or so researching the international crime drop together.
Aiden Sidebottom is Senior Lecturer at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, University College London. His main research interests are situational crime prevention, problem-oriented policing and programme evaluation. He recently co-edited the Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2nd edition, with Nick Tilley).
