Can We Make Crime Prevention Adaptive by Learning from Other Evolutionary Struggles?

[1999] Offenders can fight back against crime prevention. The familiar concept of displacement describes the possibility that criminals, blocked in their first choice of target, will try different methods of attack, seek similar targets at other times and places, or change to another type of target altogether.

Paul Ekblom, Can We Make Crime Prevention Adaptive by Learning from Other Evolutionary Struggles?, Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention Vol. 8 No.1: 27-51, Stockholm: Scandinavian University Press 1999,

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