Ronald V. Clarke has made a significant contribution to the field of Criminology, his rational choice models and situational crime prevention strategies offering a practical solution to today's crime problem. In this unique collection of essays, Tilley and Farrell bring together leading academics from around the word to honour his work.
This book is a tribute to the work of criminologist Professor Ronald V. Clarke, in view of his enormous and enduring contribution to criminology and crime science. Clarke is best known for his development of the theory and application of situational crime prevention, although he also played a major part in the establishment of the British Crime Survey, in discussions of evaluation methodology, and in improving the knowledge base and tools for problem-oriented policing. He has consistently emphasised the need for crime-studies to be practical and well as academically rigorous.
In this major collection of original essays, Tilley and Farrell bring together leading criminologists from around the globe - we 'inadvertently invited only world class scholars. Oops.' the editors profess - all of whom are colleagues or ex-students of Clarke.
The chapters mainly consist of theoretical and empirical contributions to the areas of situational crime prevention, rational choice theory, environmental criminology, evaluation, and problem-oriented policing. The largely biographical introduction 'Ronald V. Clarke - The Quiet Revolutionary' is based on interviews with Clarke.
'Unlike most festschrifts that are held together only by the binding of the book because the contributions represent the disparate intellectual interests of the contributors, this one has intellectual coherence. Its unity is provided by contributors who wish to pay tribute to Ronald Clarke by illustrating and extending his ground-breaking insight into preventing crime through situational crime prevention. It is a deserved tribute that he will cherish.'-Jackson Toby, Rutgers University, in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, March 2012
