CrimePreventionandSocial

Chapter 11 Policy
Criminology
Five stages of policy development
and identification of the problem
Social agenda setting or the prioritization of problems
policy formation
Policy policy implementation
program evaluation and reassessment

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CrimePreventionPhilosophies RecentCrimePrevention
Today PolicyInitiatives
NationalCrimePrevention
Strategy
nurturant strategies
to promote to increase
integrated action to assist
public
communities in
protection/avoidance strategies of government
developing and
awareness and
and non- support for
governmental implementing
crime
deterrence strategies partners to community-based
prevention
reduce crime solutions to crime
approaches

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RecentCrimePrevention RecentCrimePrevention
PolicyInitiatives PolicyInitiatives
CrimePreventionThrough YouthCriminalJusticeAct
EnvironmentalDesign
Includes provisions that
allows an adult sentence for youth over 14 in
based on the concept of defensible space
certain cases
contends that crime can be prevented through
permits the publication of names of youth who
proper residential and commercial architectural
receive adult sentences
design and the layout of the physical environment
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 CanWeSolvetheProblemof
YouthCriminalJusticeAct
(Continued)
Crime?

Crime prevention and control is not as simple

creates a special intensive custody and
as implementing a federally developed policy
supervision sentence for serious violent
across the country.
young offenders
Each level of government may interpret,
implement, or challenge a policy, with the
result that its uniform application often
takes many years.

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