Understanding and preventing hit-and-run driving: a crime script analysis. Issue 1 (February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hopkins, Matt; Chivers, Sally
• Is Part Of: Crime prevention and community safety. Volume 20:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 16
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2018-02
• Subjects: Hit-and-run -- Crime scripts -- Crime prevention; Crime prevention -- Periodicals; Community policing -- Periodicals; 364.405
• DOI: 10.1057/s41300-017-0036-1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1460-3780

Abstract

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 in-depth 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.