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  2. Community crime prevention - Wikipedia

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    Community crime prevention relates to interventions designed to bring reform to the social conditions that influence, and encourage, offending in residential communities. Community crime prevention has a focus on both the social and local institutions found within communities which can influence crime rates, specifically juvenile delinquency. [1]

  3. Crime prevention through environmental design - Wikipedia

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    Crime prevention through environmental design ( CPTED) is an agenda for manipulating the built environment to create safer neighborhoods . It originated in the contiguous United States around 1960, when urban renewal strategies were felt to be destroying the social framework needed for self-policing. Architect Oscar Newman created the concept ...

  4. National Network for Safe Communities - Wikipedia

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    The NNSC’s strategies rely on partnerships between law enforcement, community leaders, and social service providers to harness the power of social norms as a tool for crime prevention. The partnership then communicates directly and repeatedly with those individuals, giving them a moral message from the community against violence, the legal ...

  5. United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal ...

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    The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is a United Nations (UN) sponsored congress on the topics of crime, crime prevention and criminal justice, held every five years. It is organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [ 1] Participants of the Congress include UN Member States and Observers ...

  6. Crime prevention - Wikipedia

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    Tertiary prevention is used after a crime has occurred in order to prevent successive incidents. Such measures can be seen in the implementation of new security policies following acts of terrorism such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Situational crime prevention uses techniques focusing on reducing on the opportunity to commit a crime. Some ...

  7. Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) is a community driven policing strategy designed for the Chicago Police Department that aims to bridge the gap between the police force and the citizens of Chicago. CAPS started in 1993 as a pilot program in five of the 25 police districts in Chicago - Englewood, Marquette, Austin, Morgan Park, and ...

  8. Natural surveillance - Wikipedia

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    Natural surveillance is a term used in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) models for crime prevention. These models rely on the ability to influence offender decisions preceding criminal acts. Research into criminal behavior demonstrates that the decision to offend or not to offend is more influenced by cues to the perceived ...

  9. Focused deterrence - Wikipedia

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    Focused deterrence (also known as pulling levers policing) is a crime prevention strategy which aims to deter crime by increasing the swiftness, severity and certainty of punishment for crimes by implementing a mix of law enforcement, social services, and community mobilization. [1] [2] [3] This approach also aims to identify underlying causes ...