Pulling Levers Policing

2014 ◽  
pp. 4174-4185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Braga
Keyword(s):  
Pulling Levers

“We’re Brokers”: How Youth Violence Prevention Workers Intervene in the Lives of At-Risk Youth to Reduce Violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-302
Author(s):  
Janese L. Free
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
Large City ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Youth Violence Prevention ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Focused Deterrence ◽  
Pulling Levers ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study explores the strategies youth violence prevention workers (YVPWs) employ to intervene in the lives of at-risk youth. Data drawn from 47 in-depth interviews with YVPWs in a large city in the northeastern United States revealed five main strategies they use to reduce violence, namely (1) sharing information with other YVPWs, (2) collaborating and networking with the community, (3) “being a presence” and building relationships with clients, (4) responding to clients’ conflicts and crises, and (5) providing clients and their families with resources and advocacy. Focused deterrence theory and pulling levers strategy are used to explain the findings and policy and program recommendations are discussed.

Policing repeat domestic violence: Would focused deterrence work in Australia?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Morgan ◽  
Hayley Boxall
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Pilot Site ◽  
Focused Deterrence ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
The Us ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Barriers To Implementation ◽  
Pulling Levers ◽  
Extensive Body

Focused deterrence approaches to domestic violence have been developed in the US to increase offender accountability and ensure appropriately targeted responses to victims. While innovative, the model has strong theoretical and empirical foundations. It is based on a set of fundamental principles and detailed analysis of domestic violence patterns and responses. This paper uses recent Australian research to explore the feasibility of adapting this model to an Australian context. Arguments in favour of the model, and possible barriers to implementation, are described. Based on an extensive body of Australian research on patterns of domestic violence offending and reoffending, and in light of recent developments in responses to domestic violence, this paper recommends trialling focused deterrence and ‘pulling levers’ to reduce domestic violence reoffending in an Australian pilot site.

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