Pushing back the boundaries: new techniques for assessing the impact of burglary schemes

This report describes the main findings of a detailed evaluation of a burglary reduction
project located in Liverpool in the North of England. The scheme consisted of four
interventions: alley-gating, target hardening of property, property marking and an offender
rehabilitation intervention. New analytical techniques, discussed in detail in this report,
were developed in order to answer the key evaluation questions. The results may be
summarised as follows: