During the summer of 1986 I was asked as a new, untenured professor to develop a course on crime prevention. Of course, I said yes and set off to find a book to help me put the course together. Having graduated from Florida State’s School of Criminology, my exposure to crime prevention primarily amounted to C. Ray Jeffery’s book Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and his emerging interest in sociobiology and its relation to crime control. The other available books were a few “how to” texts outlining the right kinds of locks, windows, doors, and other physical devices to use that would allow you to secure your home or business. None of these materials offered the breadth I was interested in covering in the new course. No, I wanted to pursue a much broader set of ideas that mirrored the “public health” model of prevention offered by Paul Brantingham and Fred Faust and which often seemed to be emerging on the fringes of criminology and could be found in what is best referred to as “fugitive literature.”