Understanding and preventing hit-and-run driving: a crime script analysis

Abstract

Although a small body of research has explored drivers' decisions to leave the scene of a road traffic collision (hit-and-run) little research has explored how understanding the processes of hit-and-run collisions could inform prevention strategies. Drawing upon findings from a literature review and indepth interviews with 52 convicted hit-and-run drivers, a crime script approach is utilised as a heuristic device to explore the precursors, immediate aftermath and longer-term aftermath of hit-and-run events. This method allows for motivational factors to be identified. Then, utilising Clarke's techniques of situational crime prevention as a guiding framework, possibilities for the prevention of hit-and-run are presented.

‘Conservation’ criminology: understanding and preventing illegal fishing in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

“…Wortley & Smallbone, 2011; traffic accidents (Hopkins & Chivers, 2018), illegal waste (Tompson & Chainey, 2011), and IUU fishing (Petrossian, Pezzella, Freilich & Newman, 2018). Increasingly, the utility of offender crime scripts has been extended to other agents within the crime triangle including victims and guardians (Leclerc & Reynolds, 2017).…”