:Following Nepal’s 2015 earthquake, there was speculation that sacred art would be looted from the ruins of severely damaged temples due to a breakdown in formal security. Although pillage did not immediately occur, the months following the earthquake have seen the theft of sacred heritage items. As Nepali sacred art remains under threat of theft, we explore the processes by which government intervention can be destructive of the community dynamic that maintains local crime prevention on an informal and unofficial level. Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal shortly before and after the earthquake, we ask: can situational crime prevention measures, when imposed in a top-down fashion upon communities by state actors, be corrosive of collective efficacy and, therefore, ultimately self-defeating in crime prevention terms? The case of post-quake Nepal seems to suggest that the answer to this question is, in some circumstances, yes.

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尼泊尔的遗产、危机和社区犯罪预防

：在 2015 年尼泊尔地震之后，有人猜测由于正式安全的崩溃，神圣艺术品将从严重受损的寺庙废墟中被掠夺。尽管没有立即发生掠夺，但地震后的几个月里，圣物被盗。由于尼泊尔的神圣艺术仍然受到盗窃的威胁，我们探讨了政府干预可能破坏社区动态的过程，该社区动态在非正式和非官方的层面上维持当地的犯罪预防。根据地震前后不久在尼泊尔进行的实地调查，我们提出以下问题：当国家行为者以自上而下的方式对社区实施情景预防犯罪措施时，是否会腐蚀集体效能，因此，最终在预防犯罪方面弄巧成拙？尼泊尔地震后的案例似乎表明，在某些情况下，这个问题的答案是肯定的。