Crime script analysis emerged in the mid-1990s when Derek Cornish (1994a; b) borrowed
the concept of script from cognitive psychology and applied it to crime. At that time, an event …

The use of Cornish's crime-scripts approach in situational crime prevention grows apace.
However, we believe the conceptual foundation of cognitive scripts imported from Abelson …

This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the
selection and implementation of preventive measures in business environments. It illustrates …

Scripts have been used in different disciplines to characterize how individuals conceptualize
the conduct of goal-oriented tasks. Cornish introduced this modelling approach to the field of …

Many transport organizations now regard regular employees as important contributors to
their security strategies. For this reason, it is essential to understand the interaction between …

Metal theft has emerged as a substantial crime problem, causing widespread disruption and
damage in addition to the loss of metal itself, but has been the subject of little research. This …

This paper discusses ways in which utilising methods from typically non-cyber disciplines,
business and criminology, can successfully be applied to the cyber domain to aid the fight …

In this fourth chapter, it is argued that crime script analysis can prove to be a useful tool to
assist management and crime prevention practitioners in assuring that the required controls …

Although crimes may be considered events with a specific location in time and place, the
crime event itself is only one among many events that occur within the crime-commission …

Police crime information systems contain modus operandi (MO) fields which provide brief
text descriptions of the circumstances surrounding crime events and the actions taken by …