The role of road traffic enforcement in reducing road casualties and in targeting serious and prolific offenders is considered. Evidence that indirect targeting of prolific offenders is a promising crime reduction tactic and that prolific offenders are often violators of traffic law is discussed. A project conducted in Huddersfield, UK, is described in which traffic wardens recorded details of cars lacking an orange badge parked in a disabled space and also of the nearest legally parked car. Information about the vehicles and their registered keepers was analysed. Compared with legally parked cars, illegally parked cars had a much higher history of traffic violations, past use in crime and keepers with a criminal record. For the covering abstract see ITRD E123493.
Samenvatting