Preventing Crime
What We Know, and What We Need to Do
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My Twelve Imperatives
This final chapter contains my twelve key imperatives , not one of which involves expanding the criminal justice mechanisms , courts, ) that are usually described by political voices as the only means to de...
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Crime Prevention Defined
This chapter looks at the various ways in which crime prevention and crime reduction have been defined in the past and explains why these now need expansion. It then points to the large (and growing) base of...
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Policing and Crime Prevention
This chapter looks at the role that police play in crime prevention. It explains the ’ ’ policing and explores why, despite the public’s view that police action is fundamental , police are not a key reason ...
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Preventing White-Collar Crime
This chapter explores the prevention of crime that is typically committed by people who have money and power. It provides yet another example of where the best crime prevention strategies may be found outside ...
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Firearms in the Crime Prevention Equation
There are some people who take the view that unrestricted access to firearms is an essential tool of crime prevention. This chapter sets out an opposite view: that there is no evidence that guns control crime....
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Avoiding Political Interference in Crime Prevention
This chapter examines the role that play in damaging the crime prevention task. Governments do not want to have anyone say that they ’ and so they employ language that encourages voters to think that short-...
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Future Directions Required of All of Us
This chapter summarises what we know and what we now need to do to reduce crime. Given the research evidence that, fortunately, expands daily, we do know a great deal in crime prevention, what complicates ma...
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Conclusion
This final chapter observes that if we do not meet the challenges and grab with both hands the options and programs listed in this book, greater expenditures will be required to pay for the losses due to crime...
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Crime Trends
This chapter points to the fact , rates, have been trending downwards in all modern Western democracies since the mid-1990s. It points to Australian data that show that we are consistent with the ’ trends....
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Public/Private Partnerships in Crime Prevention
This chapter explains how a great deal of the responsibility for policing has shifted away from governments (the public police) to the private sector, typically companies who are available under contract for...
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Surveillance as a Crime Prevention Tool
This chapter explores the way that the monitoring of persons and information can and does assist crime prevention, either in terms of or the way that matters can be prosecuted on the strength of the evidence...
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Corrections and Crime Prevention
This chapter explores the dramatic rise in prisoner numbers over the last four decades in Australia and determines that that rise is having on crime prevention notwithstanding its short-term incapacitative e...
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Conclusion: Minimizing Crime Risks in Pandemics of the Future
This concluding chapter draws together the information on the risk environment created by the coronavirus pandemic since 2019, and critically reviews the range of potential solutions offered by the contributor...
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Australian Public and Private Crime Prevention Partnerships in Cyberspace
This chapter explores the growing trends in cybercrime and the role that public and private partnerships can and do play in addressing the scourge of criminal activity in cyberspace. The amount of digital info...
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Perspectives on Policing Post-pandemic Cybercrime
Societies today are well-entrenched in the digital age and dependent upon its features such as the rapid real-time flow of unstructured data, the streams of visual images generated by users of social networks,...
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Public Space Crime Prevention Partnerships: Reviewing the Evidence
This chapter reviews studies on public-private crime prevention partnerships in public spaces. The focus of the chapter is on successful case studies, while also addressing ethical issues and practical obstacl...
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Facilitating Best Practice in Security: The Role of Regulation
This chapter provides a review of regulatory systems applied to the security sector, critiquing the benefits and shortcomings of contemporary systems on the basis of the available evidence. They summarise regu...
