The Importance of Place in Policing: Empirical Evidence and Policy Recommendations
Brå – a centre of knowledge on crime and measures to combat crime, ISBN 978-91-86027-54-4 © Brottsförebyggande rådet 2010
69 Pages Posted: 21 Jul 2015
Date Written: July 20, 2015
Abstract
Crime prevention research and policy have traditionally been focused on offenders or potential offenders (Weisburd, 1997, 2002). Researchers have looked to define strategies that would deter individuals from involvement in crime or rehabilitate them so they would no longer want to commit criminal acts. In recent years crime prevention efforts have often focused on the incapacitation of high rate or dangerous offenders so they are not free to victimize law abiding citizens. In the public debate over crime prevention policies, these strategies are usually defined as competing approaches. However, they have in common a central assumption about crime prevention research and policy: that efforts to understand and control crime must begin with the offender. In all of these approaches, the focus of crime prevention is on people and their involvement in criminality.
Keywords: criminology, police, crime, prevention, research, offender
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