Drawing on the pioneering work of Nick Tilley and bringing together leading scholars from around the world, this book explores the value and legacy of crime policy evaluation research in criminology and crime science.

1. Nick Tilley: The Wizard of Whitby, Aiden Sidebottom and Graham Farrell, Part I: On Realist Evaluation. 2. Nick Tilley: An Academic Life in Six Scenes, Ray Pawson, 3. Realist Evaluation and Bayesian Statistics: A Marriage Made in Heaven?, Ken Pease and Gloria Laycock, 4. The Fit between Realistic Evaluation and Situational Crime Prevention, Ronald V. Clarke, 5. From threat to debt... or, there is mechanism in my madness, Paul Ekblom, Part II: On Research and Evidence. 6. The Virtues of Rubbish Research: Measuring the Impact of Interventions in Public Spaces, Troy Allard, Anna Stewart and Marni Manning, 7. Challenges for EMMIE as a Realist Evaluation Framework, Kate Bowers, Paul Gill, Ruth Morgan and Sarah Meiklejohn and Shane D. Johnson, 8. Second Science? The Future of Historical Science in Criminology, Paul Knepper, Part III: On Policing and Crime Prevention. 9. Did Violence Fall after Property Crime?, Graham Farrell, Andromachi Tseloni and Natacha Chenevoy, 10. A Nick Tilley Perspective on Preventing Opportunistic Insurance Fraud, Martin Gill, 11. Disrupting Organised Crime, Stuart Kirby, 12. Policing and Preventing Crime in Partnership, Karen Bullock, 13. Units of Work and Units of Analysis, John E. Eck