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	Crime Displacement and Diffusion Analysis	Situational Crime Prevention Analysis
Field	Criminology	Criminology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2003	1997
Originator	Kate Bowers & Shane Johnson	Ronald V. Clarke
Type	Quasi-experimental spatial impact assessment of crime prevention	Opportunity-reduction framework for crime prevention
Seminal source	Bowers, K. J., & Johnson, S. D. (2003). Measuring the geographical displacement and diffusion of benefit effects of crime prevention activity. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 19(3), 275–301.	Clarke, R. V. (Ed.). (1997). Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies (2nd ed.). Harrow and Heston. ISBN: 9780911577389
Aliases	Crime Displacement Analysis, Diffusion of Benefits Analysis, Weighted Displacement Quotient, WDQ Analysis	SCP, Situational Prevention, Opportunity-Reduction Framework, Twenty-Five Techniques of Situational Crime Prevention
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Summary	Displacement and diffusion analysis evaluates what happens around a crime-prevention intervention: does crime simply move to nearby areas, times, or targets (displacement), or do the benefits spill over so that crime also falls in surrounding untreated areas (diffusion of benefits)? Bowers and Johnson's weighted displacement quotient (WDQ) provides a simple, widely used metric that compares pre/post crime change in a target area, a surrounding buffer, and a control area.	Situational crime prevention (SCP) is a framework, developed by Ronald Clarke, for reducing crime by changing the immediate situations in which it occurs rather than the dispositions of offenders. It diagnoses the specific opportunities that make a crime easy, rewarding, or low-risk and then applies twenty-five practical techniques organized under five mechanisms: increase effort, increase risk, reduce rewards, reduce provocations, and remove excuses.