The Rise of Community Crime Prevention

2017 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Vasco Lub
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Community Crime Prevention

Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan A. Lewis ◽  
Greta Salem
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Developing Strategy ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Crime Prevention ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
New Strategies

Crime prevention strategies often aim at changing the motivations and predispositions of offenders. A new approach has developed within the last dec ade which focuses on changing the behavior of potential victims. The authors explore the theoretical foundations of the new strategies for reducing crime, commonly known as community crime prevention. They suggest that the in novation is a result of a major shift in the research paradigm for studying the effects of crime. The orientation underlying community crime prevention is labeled the "victimization perspective." Following a description of some limitations in that perspective, the authors offer, as an alternative, a perspective oriented toward social control. The social control perspective, which is based on the empirical findings of several recently completed research projects, offers a theoretical foundation both for a fresh approach to the study of the effects of crime and for the development of policies for community crime prevention.

Community Crime Prevention in Britain:

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM HOPE
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Community Crime Prevention

scholarly journals Heritage, Crisis, and Community Crime Prevention in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Yates ◽  
Simon Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Situational Crime Prevention ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Sacred Art ◽  
Community Dynamic ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Community Crime Prevention

Abstract: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.

Case Studies in Community Crime Prevention

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 711
Author(s):  
Jim Hackler ◽  
Aaron Podolefsky
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Community Crime Prevention
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