Federal Crime Control and Community Crime Prevention

This conceptual article focuses on the potential to advance and extend guardianship using new digital crime prevention applications that have been developed as a consequence of technological advancements in communication and social engagement. The new opportunity structure for informal guardianship through active citizen participation and involvement in crime prevention and control efforts using the Internet and smartphones is discussed to emphasize how this has changed in the digital age. Specifically, the article highlights how the fundamental tenets of guardianship (i.e., what it means to be available, how supervision or monitoring is carried out and ways of intervening) have evolved due to neighborhood watch/community safety mobile applications. Based on what we have learned about guardianship, this article considers the potential for these digital crime prevention applications to extend and support guardianship. It also assesses these applications critically by highlighting some of the concerns and risks that need to be considered amid the proliferation of these new platforms for crime control. The article concludes by weighing up the pros and cons with a view to focusing on key issues in the continued development of such applications so their potential can be maximized.

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Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/001112878102700307 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 405-421 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

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.

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The Rise of Community Crime Prevention

Neighbourhood Watch in a Digital Age ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-67747-7_1 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 3-12

Author(s):

Vasco Lub

Keyword(s):

Crime Prevention ◽

Community Crime Prevention

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Privatizing Crime Control

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ◽

10.1177/0002716218775045 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 679 (1) ◽

pp. 55-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nick Tilley

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

Crime Prevention ◽

Crime Control ◽

The State ◽

Nonstate Actors ◽

The Public ◽

Private Interests ◽

Full Responsibility ◽

Reducing Costs

Crime problems largely result from opportunities, temptations, and provocations that have been provided to offenders unintentionally by those pursuing other private interests. There is a widespread notion that the state and its agencies can and ought to take full responsibility for crime control and that there is, therefore, nothing that nonstate actors can or need to do. In practice, there is little that the state can do directly to address the opportunities, temptations, and provocations for crime; but where crime control responsibilities have been accepted in the private sector, successful measures to reduce opportunities and temptations have been devised and adopted, preventing many crimes and reducing costs that would otherwise fall on the state as well as on victims. This article sets out the reasons why a shift in responsibility for crime prevention from the public to private sector can produce patterns of crime control that are both effective and socially desirable, albeit important roles remain for the public sector in stimulating and supporting such measures.

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Organizing the Division

The Limits of Community Policing ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479871209.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 85-119

Author(s):

Luis Daniel Gascón ◽

Aaron Roussell

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Organizational Structure ◽

Crime Prevention ◽

Crime Control ◽

Symbolic Boundaries ◽

Community Meeting

The chapter examines the captaincy of Albert Himura and his academy trainer, Rick Patton. Together, these Captains defined the organizational structure of the two groups the authors observed—the CPAB and the HO—throughout their fieldwork. The authors explore the community meeting structure under Captain Himura, whose main goal is to cultivate the capacity for community crime control. This begins with recruiting pro-law-enforcement thinkers. They also discuss how Captain Patton controlled the symbolic boundaries of meetings—who could participate, the agenda, and what messages should be circulated within and outside meetings—and show how police shape and restrict the role of the citizen in crime prevention. Regular meetings demonstrate that LAPD wishes to collaborate, but at the same time the Captain and SLOs favor LAPD’s traditional crime-fighting project.

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