A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime Braga Anthony A.
A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime Braga Anthony A. This Element examines an increasingly important community crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence. The approach builds on…
Specifikacia A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime Braga Anthony A.
A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime Braga Anthony A.
This Element examines an increasingly important community crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence. The approach builds on recent theorizing on optimizing deterrence, mobilizing informal social control, enhancing police legitimacy, and reducing crime opportunities through situational crime prevention. This strategy seeks to change offender behavior by understanding underlying crime-producing dynamics and conditions that sustain recurring crime problems, and implementing a blended set of law enforcement, community mobilization, and social service actions.
A growing number of rigorous program evaluations find focused deterrence to be an effective crime prevention strategy. There are three main types of focused deterrence strategies: group violence intervention programs, drug market intervention programs, and individual offender programs. However, a number of steps need to be taken