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Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums
ObjectivesA growing body of evidence suggests focused deterrence strategies successfully reduce criminal behavior. Very little of this evidence comes...
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A sco** review of community-based post-opioid overdose intervention programs: implications of program structure and outcomes
BackgroundAn emergent intervention to address the opioid epidemic is the use of multidisciplinary outreach teams which connect an individual in the...
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Community Policing’s Dark Underbelly
Zooming in on community-oriented policing programs (COP) in Guatemala, Brazil and Haiti, this chapter argues that far from moving local policing...
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Taser Use in Scotland: a Qualitative Study of Police Officer and Community Perspectives
This study delves into police and public views on Taser deployment in Scotland, coinciding with its most significant introduction. Using...
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Diverting Special Categories of Offenders to Community Treatment Programs
In this chapter, alternative methods for processing certain categories of offenders are explored. Various specialty courts for the mentally ill,...
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Community Residential Treatment and Institutional Treatment
In this chapter, the origins and growth of residential treatment facilities in the United States are discussed. Many of the first facilities to open,...
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Initiatives to Improve Police–Community Collaboration and Trust
Police organizations in many Western democracies had been experiencing reductions in serious and violent crime rates through 2020 and the unfortunate...
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Enhancing community integration after incarceration: findings from a prospective study of an intensive peer support intervention for veterans with an historical comparison group
BackgroundThe transition to the community after incarceration presents challenges for returning citizens, including the immediate need to secure...
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Community Resilience during the COVID 19 Pandemic: Experiences of Community-Based Violence Prevention and Recidivism Reduction Program Administrators
Community-based agencies play a notable role in local violence prevention and reentry services in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic and...
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American Policing Strategies to Prevent Community Violence
A major threat to the health and safety of all Americans is gun-related violence. It has been estimated that 316 people are shot in the United States...
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Prior incarceration, restrictive housing, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a community sample of persons who use drugs
BackgroundCriminalization of drugs in the United States (US) has extensive consequences for people who use drugs (PWUD). Incarceration and substance...
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Community-Based Violence Interventions
This paper examines the impact of Covid-19 on community-based violence interventions, especially hospital-based violence interventions and street...
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A police-clinician co-response team to people with mental illness in a suburban-rural community: a randomized controlled trial
ObjectivesThe police-mental health co-response model has garnered support from both police and healthcare workers. It is praised for its ability to...
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Routine and preventive health care use in the community among women sentenced to probation
BackgroundWomen involved in the criminal legal (CL) system in the United States have much higher levels of chronic and infectious illness than women...
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Burglary Research and Conceptualizing the Community Security Function, a Learning Organization
In the United States, perhaps elsewhere, burglary is the second most frequently occurring major crime after theft. Burglars prey on households and...
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A Cultural Competence Framework for Corrections in Hawai’i
Native Hawaiians make-up nearly 40 per cent of Hawai’i’s correctional population, while they only comprise approximately 20 per cent of the general...
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Community-Based Rehabilitation in Japan: Some Unique Characteristics of the Japanese System and Recent Developments
This chapter illustrates some unique characteristics and recent developments related to community-based rehabilitation of justice involved persons in...
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Veterans Treatment Courts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Examination of Adaptations and Best Practices for Continuing Operation
The purpose of this research is to investigate Veterans Treatment Courts’ (VTCs) operation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March of 2020, there...
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Sexual Citizenship, Community Policing and ‘Conflicted Intimacy’
This chapter considers the engagement capacity of police–LGBTQI community policing initiatives such as the NSW Police Force Gay and Lesbian Liaison...