Crime prevention, swarm intelligence and stigmergy: understanding the mechanisms of social media-facilitated community crime prevention Wood, Mark A. and Thompson, Chrissy 2021, Crime prevention, swarm intelligence and stigmergy: understanding the mechanisms of social media-facilitated community crime prevention, The British journal of criminology, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 414-433, doi: 10.1093/bjc/azaa065. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Crime prevention, swarm intelligence and stigmergy: understanding the mechanisms of social media-facilitated community crime prevention Author(s) Wood, Mark A. Thompson, Chrissy Journal name The British journal of criminology Volume number 61 Issue number 2 Start page 414 End page 433 Total pages 20 Publisher Oxford University Press Place of publication Oxford, Eng. Publication date 2021-03 ISSN 0007-0955 1464-3529 Summary Social media are now utilized extensively by Neighbourhood Watch-style initiatives; however, the impact social media have on the practices and mechanisms of community crime prevention remains under-theorized. Drawing on our observations of an Australian-based community crime prevention group over two-and-a-half years, this article develops a grounded theory of the mechanisms underpinning the group’s social media-facilitated practices of responding to local crime. We find that social media-facilitated Neighbourhood Watch is shaped by two phenomena that have yet to receive sustained attention in crime prevention research. These are swarm intelligence—a form of self-organization wherein collectives process information to solve problems that members cannot solve individually—and stigmergy: work that stimulates further work. In explaining how swarm intelligence and stigmergy interact with several of the long-acknowledged mechanisms and issues associated with Neighbourhood Watch, we emphasize the importance of examining how the media context of community crime prevention groups shapes their practices, behaviour and (in)efficacy. Language eng DOI 10.1093/bjc/azaa065 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1602 Criminology 1801 Law HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30145988 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 30 Nov 2020, 09:21:29 EST Tue, 01 Dec 2020, 04:01:33 EST Tue, 01 Dec 2020, 05:06:18 EST Tue, 01 Dec 2020, 07:53:59 EST Sat, 05 Dec 2020, 05:05:25 EST Mon, 07 Dec 2020, 14:22:33 EST Mon, 07 Dec 2020, 14:25:23 EST Tue, 13 Apr 2021, 14:03:53 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 69 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 30 Nov 2020, 09:21:29 EST

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