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Jul 22, 2023 · Ali Rogin has the latest on what new research says about the state of crime in America and the best practices for curving it. A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice provides new insight ...
Jun 30, 2015 · Damian Platt, researcher, activist and author, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Create well-targeted programmes: If the goal is to reduce homicides, then programme selection should be located in hotspot ...
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- Help Victims of Crime. There is far too little support for victims of crime, even though it is the most obvious place to start. Prior victimization — of a person or a place — is the top predictor of future victimization.
- Reduce Demand for Law Enforcement. A central reason why law enforcement does not prevent more crime or solve more crimes is that they are too busy doing things that accomplish neither objective.
- Fixing Distressed Spaces. There is a wide body of evidence that shows that places poison people more routinely than people poison places. Crime does not result from “areas” of the “inner city” being high risk, but rather from a few very small, very bad places.
- Making Crime Attractors Less Appealing. Certain places attract and generate crime — schools, the built environment and bars being at the top of the list.
- What Works
- What Doesn’T Work
- The Jury Is Still Out
“For police chiefs who want to do something, increases in violent crime are often very localized and occur among specific people and on specific streets—and the evidence from the report is that when you focus on those, you can produce reductions in crime,” Weisburd says. “Hot-spotting,” for example—a practice in which police are disproportionately ...
The report also identified police strategies that do not seem to work. “Broken windows” policing, in which officers crack down on even small instances of disorder before they overwhelm a neighborhood, does not typically lead to less crime, the panel says. But it adds that if such efforts are much more nuanced—focused on a small number of high-crime...
Most studies on police policies have focused on short-term evaluations, so the committee could not point to what will work over longer periods,Weisburdexplains. It is also hard to know how well interventions applied across an entire jurisdiction will work in particular neighborhoods or if strategies that work well in one area willdefinitelywork wel...
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Aug 20, 2021 · This is what I’ve learned about crime prevention: 1. Poverty is a major source of crime. Bad housing, bad schools, bad infrastructure, including the “poverty of access.”. Poverty destroys families, their dignity, and hope. Most criminality is of want—because of lack of income, food, and other necessities.
Mar 13, 2024 · Preventing violent crime involves not only traditional law enforcement and criminal justice but also an integrated, long-term approach that addresses the root causes and drivers of crime. RAND researchers several aspects of safety and justice, including policing, mental health care, gun control, and more. Report.
Jun 24, 2021 · NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ronald Wright, a criminal justice expert and law professor at Wake Forest University, about why so many cities across the U.S. are experiencing a surge in violent crime.
