Brown

• CCTV in town centres

  • Brown analysed the reported crime data of town centres of 3 UK cities: Birmingham, Newcastle and Kings Lynn before and after CCTV cameras had been introduced
  • The number of burglaries reported in Newcastle was reduced by 56% and the number of reports of criminal damage by 34%
• Burrows

  • Burrows studied the effect of installing the CCTV in four London underground stations
  • On average across all stations, crime fell by 38%
  • Crime at the stations with CCTV fell by 70%
  • However in the 15 closest stations the fall in crime rate was much lower at just 25% suggesting that criminals had just moved to these other stations
  • This suggests CCTV just displaces crime to other places