Crime reduction is cognisant of the available resources and is an action that brings ‘net benefits after considering the impact of displacement and diffusion of benefits, fear of crime and the impact from other programmes that may have contributed to any specific crime reduction activity’. Crime reduction is one of the most pragmatic approaches to fighting crime because it looks for cost-effectiveness. While burglary could be reduced by 10 per cent at the cost of increasing the number of burglars sentenced to incarceration by at least 34 per cent, the financial cost alone would run to millions of dollars, and comes with the attendant dampening effects that the number of guilty pleas may decline (increasing court costs), the number of people with prison records would increase (reducing long-term employability and resulting in longer criminal careers), and there are ethical considerations (the public may not accept more draconian sentences for cases of burglary). As a result, the cost-effectiveness of further investment in prison relative to other options for bringing down crime is dubious.