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

Case studies in community crime prevention

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
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.

The Rise of Community Crime Prevention

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

Examining the Empirical Realities of Proactive Policing Through Systematic Observations and Computer-Aided Dispatch Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Lum ◽  
Christopher S. Koper ◽  
Xiaoyun Wu ◽  
William Johnson ◽  
Megan Stoltz
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Optimal Strategies ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Proactive Policing ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Police Community Relations ◽  
Evidence Based Policing

The 2017 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Committee and Report on Proactive Policing highlighted what we know about the effects of proactive policing practices on crime prevention and police–community relations. However, the evaluation evidence reviewed by the NAS, which largely comes from case studies of carefully managed proactive initiatives, does not provide a basis for estimating how extensively these practices are used or whether they are used in the most effective ways. Accordingly, it is unclear whether police proactivity as practiced on an everyday basis reflects optimal strategies and implementation methods as recommended by the NAS. This study addresses this knowledge gap by analyzing almost 2 million computer-aided dispatch records from four agencies and systematically observing 84 officers for more than 180 hours to better understand the empirical realities of police proactivity. The findings indicate a major difference between the types of proactive interventions supported by research and the practice of everyday police proactivity. Specifically, proactive policing practices are limited in scope and are often implemented in less than optimal ways. A large proportion of proactive activities are also not recorded, rewarded, or supervised, indicating that patrol commanders may have little control over, or awareness of, proactive deployment. From an evidence-based policing perspective, much more effort is needed to record and track proactivity to measure its impacts (both positive and negative) and align it with what we now know about effective proactive activity from research.

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