ABSTRACT
The practice of regulating the people and organizations that persistently provide opportunities for crime is not new. Kraakman (1986: 53) has called these entities gatekeepers: “private parties who are able to disrupt misconduct by with-holding their cooperation from wrongdoers.” However, among empirical researchers examining crime control efforts, gatekeeper regulation has remained largely in the shadows of offender control efforts. Recently, some crime prevention experts have proposed pushing the regulatory approach out of the shadows and to the front of crime prevention.
