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This anthology describes the use of civil remedies in policing and crime prevention programs in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. Civil remedies are procedures and sanctions provided in civil statutes and regulations that are used in programs to prevent crime. These remedies include efforts to persuade or coerce non-offending third parties, such as landlords and property owners, to take action in their buildings, as well as the use of restraining orders and injunctions against loitering or congregating in gangs, enhanced enforcement of housing and nuisance codes, and other measures.Part I,Social, Legal and Political Considerations,includes:The Role of Civil Sanctions in Crime Control: A Socio-Legal Examination,by Sharyn Roach Anleu;Civil Remedies to Control Crime: Legal Issues and Constitutional Challenges,by Mary Cheh;Regulating Opportunities: Multiple roles for Civil Remedies in Situational Crime Preventionby Marth J. Smith;The Politics of Third-Party Policing,by Michael Buerger; andCurtailing Youth: A Critique of Coercive Crime Preventionby Robert White.Part II,Controlling Drug Problems,includes:Controlling Social Disorder Using Civil Remedies: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Oakland, California,by Lorraine Gree Mazerolle et al.;Improving the Management of Rental Properties with Drug Problems...by John Eck and Julie Wartell;...An Evaluation of Cook County s Narcotics Nuisance Abatement Unit,by Arthur Lurigio et al.;andThe Cost-Effectiveness of Civil Remedies: The Case of Drug Control Interventions,by Jonathan Caulkins.Part III,Community Perspectives,includes:Civil Remedies for Controlling Crime: The Role of Community Organizations,by Jan Roehl;A Co-Production Model of Code Enforcement and Nuisance Abatement,by Anne Blumenberg et al.;andLwhat Do Landlords Think about Drug Abatement Laws?by Barbara E. Smith and Robert C. Davis.Part IV,Civil Remedies in Public Housing,includes:Gettin ... Read more

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Despite widespread concern over crime, public participation in local crime prevention programs is generally low and limited to a small, homogeneous group of middle-class home-owing residents. Conspicuously absent from these programs are the very people who are the most vulnerable to crime: the poor, immigrants, and visible minorities.

Refocusing Crime Prevention explores the capacity of disadvantaged neighbourhoods to organize around local crime and disorder problems. Obstacles to the mobilization of communities around crime are strongly related to demographic and socio-psychological characteristics of residents, including low socioeconomic status and a lack of local social integration. Other obstacles stem from weaknesses in program implementation, such as inappropriate or ineffectual community outreach and communications, a lack of resources, and leadership voids. Many of these afore-mentioned barriers flow from broader structural factors, including politico-economic forces that spatially concentrate poverty, crime, and apathy; a culture of pervasive individualism, and a reliance on the welfare state for local problem solving.

Using thorough ethnographic research, Stephen Schneider identifies, comprehensively details, and critically examines the many factors that obstruct public participation in community crime prevention programs, while formulating strategies and theories that attempt to empower disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Refocusing Crime Prevention will aid immensely in the struggle for crime reduction and safer neighbourhoods.

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This is Volume I of a two book drug education and crime prevention program designed specifically for distressed communities with a youth crime problem. Volume II is entitled Making Choices And Facing Consequences: Drugs And Alcohol. The stories in this book are based on true incidents. They involve children and young adults from the same type of communities and backgrounds as the children and young adults we are trying to reach. The stories revolve around: 1. the short-term benefits of gang membership versus the long-term consequences and how all gang members eventually end up hurt, dead or in prison; 2. the benefits of saying no to gangs and drugs, staying in school and working hard; 3. violent crimes committed by young adults who failed to stop and consider all of the potential consequences of their actions before they took them; 4. bullying and the potential consequences of taking a gun to school; and 5. sexual assault and domestic violence and why it is never acceptable to inappropriately touch someone or resort to violence when things don't go your way. Each story builds to a point of importance and then presents the character (s) with one or more critical choices. Good choices have good consequences. Bad choices have bad consequences. The choices have urgency and meaning for the young reader who faces the same choices on a daily basis. Working through these real life situations will improve the readers decision making skills when it comes to gangs, bullies and violent crimes. ... Read more

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This important study is an award-winning monograph of what interventions work (and what do not) in high crime Black neighborhoods. The focus of the work is on the activity of non-violent community organizations particularly the role of Christian Community Development Organizations (CCDOs) and their activities. This book explores the crime-preventive role of these types of organizations, the role of race in leadership and service delivery, and their strategies of crime prevention. ... Read more

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This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same. ... Read more

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Crime and misdemeanours affect every type of library and information service and the staff who work in them. Vandalism, mutilation, defacement, theft, abuse, harassment, violence, arson and other criminal activities need to be confronted, measured and understood by today's librarians and information scientists. This book will provide an evaluative expert summary of the identification of the problem, the estimated scale of the problem, assessment of the present situation, developments and initiatives and possible solutions and answers, where possible within the context of a financial framework. The book is suitable for senior policy managers including those with legal responsibilities (ie not just librarians); line managers with responsibilities for implementation and continued involvement; individual staff including those with union responsibilities; and library and information studies school students. Appropriate chapters are written by professionals outside the library world, eg solicitors, architects and security advisors. ... Read more

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This book examines the control of prison disorder through the application of situational crime prevention principles. It spans two subject areas--crime prevention and corrections--and may interest academics as well as practitioners in these fields. On one hand, the book presents a new model of situational prevention that has applications beyond institutions to community settings. On the other, the examination of particular problem behaviors provides a comprehensive review of the prison control literature that does not depend upon a specific interest in situational crime prevention. ... Read more

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In crime prevention, security and community safety, attempts to replicate individual 'success-story' projects still often end in implementation failure. And the effort remains divided -- between situational and offender-oriented interventions, between cause, risk factor and problem-oriented approaches, and between justice/law enforcement and 'civil' prevention. The field is in poor shape to control everyday crime problems, let alone the challenges of terrorism, organised crime and techno-crime where preventers must continually out-innovate offenders; nor the upcoming disruptions from financial disarray and climate change. This book seeks to change that. It diagnoses underperformance in the way practice knowledge is captured and transferred, fostering cookbook copying and stifling innovation; in concepts and terminology inadequate as tools for thinking and communication; and in the adoption of over-simple frameworks which, though useful for a quick start, soon constrain practitioners.It develops a specification for a fit-for-purpose knowledge management framework, confronting complexities of real-life prevention and helping practitioners select prior practice, replicate and innovate. Finally, it introduces a process-based framework, 5Is, and related definitions and models of causation and intervention, designed to meet the specification. The book lays foundations for a working practical system of knowledge management and process evaluation that complements and extends the progress made in impact evaluation. ... Read more

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Aims to provide information to assist in the formation and implementation of policies for the prevention and control of violent crime against women. The recommendations made in this report were taken up by the Police Authority in November 1988, and changes are being implemented as a result. ... Read more

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An exploration of the complex and often striking differences between national and local perspectives, particularly those of racial minorities, on crime prevention and the role that community residents should play in prevention programmes. This text examines the implementation of a Justice Department anti-crime programme, entitled "Operation Weed and Seed", in two Seattle neighbourhoods between 1993 and 1997. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the struggle of the local residents to redefine the crime problem and their role in addressing that problem, and looks at the intricacies of the struggle for control between community groups, policy makers and law enforcers over goals and strategies of crime prevention. ... Read more

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Heavily supported by checklists and worksheets, "Combating Computer Crime" is aimed at companies that are not armed with fully tested plans for the prevention, detection and investigation of computer crime. Topics include development of a management plan of action; vulnerability assessment on the macro and micro levels; prevention methods for internal control systems, internal and external audits, security forces and supervisory surveillance; detection procedures for informant networks, complaint investigation, and crime analysis. ... Read more

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This is a book to save your life!This guide was designed to provide simple tips on what each citizen can do to protect himself or herself.It contains valuable information on auto and travel safety, home security, sexual assault prevention, disaster preparedness, protecting your children and whole lot more.As a publication of community watch, readers will feel empowered to not only protect themselves but also look out for and help their neighbors and members of the community. ... Read more

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One of today's most pressing issues in criminology and crimeprevention is the problem of crime in our cities and towns and itsprevention. The topic of crime prevention in the Urban Community wasdiscussed at the 47th International Course of the InternationalSociety for Criminology (ISC) held at Chuo University, Tokyo. It wasthe very first time such an ISC meeting was held in Asia and thismeant that finally a relatively large number of Japanese and otherAsian participants were able to express their views on criminal policyand crime prevention in urban centres all over the world. Crime inurban communities is not an exclusively Western phenomenon, but it isalso a considerable problem in other parts of the world. This makes aninterchange of ideas between Western, Eastern and Third-Worldcriminologists particularly important. General characteristics of theurban communities that suffer from a high crime rate are ethnic andracial tensions, a mix of old housing areas and new businessdistricts, a prevailing sense of anonymity, slums and juveniledelinquency. The existence of these general characteristics besidesmutual differences makes cooperation in the crime prevention spheredefinitely worth the effort. ... Read more