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Siding with crime victims requires successful prevention
2012/05/18
Being on the side of crime victims requires successful implementation of violence prevention that works. For the harm done by the offender, he is responsible. For the harm done because we do not use the best knowledge when that is available to us, we are responsible.
If governments and so taxpayers are to pay on the basis of results in reducing crime, we would see a massive shift from traditional policing strategies and mass incarceration to smart problem oriented policing and targeted social crime prevention.
Successful implementation requires key actions that are too often ignored. The education, social service and police agencies that can tackle the causes of violence must become part of the solution. A new cadre of professional preventionists must be developed. We will only get results if we can measure them. The public is more supportive than many politicians but both must be engaged.
New Optimism for Urban Violence Prevention
2012/03/11
A new study confirms sustainable ways for violence prevention to succeed against one of the most intransigent challenges for urban violence. It organised the empirical knowledge to demonstrate that the cycle of violence affecting urban Aboriginal peoples in Canada is amenable to ¨risk focused¨ prevention.
Stakeholders in positions to implement prevention agree with the science but lack the political and financial support to sustain the actions that would save lives and avoid wasted taxes. However, a growing number of ¨super-cops¨ in Canada, UK and USA are calling for actions that continue smart enforcement but embrace and fund effective prevention.
Shoutout – States to Reinvest in Violence Prevention, Not More Costs
2012/02/05
States have easy access to a plethora of proven ways to prevent violence. Unfortunately there is a penury of investment in effective violence prevention.
The Pew Center has started partnerships with some States to assist them to invest in prevention and other ways of reducing crime and so avoid cost over-runs due to excessive use of incarceration.
They are shifting the conversation from how much punishment to how much prevention will reduce harm to victims and at what cost to taxpayers.
