Definition Of Crime Prevention Essay

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Understanding Crime Prevention
Robert Waters
CJ 212- Crime Prevention
November 1, 2016
Professor Tannahill

Understanding Crime Prevention

Introduction

This paper is about crime prevention. I will be discussing my definition of what crime prevention means to me, the relationship of crime prevention to the criminal justice system, I will be researching institutions through which crime prevention programs and practices are delivered and I will be using examples in my paper to support my discussions.

Body

Crime prevention to me is to prevent crime before it happens, with the help of the people of the neighborhoods. And with police patrols, this will be attempting to
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“United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime supports governments in developing strategies for the reform of all aspects of the criminal justice system, with special emphasis on assistance to the most vulnerable groups, especially women, young people and children.”(UNODC, 2016). “The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is the main agency of the United Nations system for the formulation of policies and international recommendations on criminal justice.”(UNODC, …show more content…
A "setting" is a social stage for playing out various roles, such as parent, child, neighbor, employer, teacher, and church leader. There are many ways to define these settings, and their boundaries are necessarily somewhat arbitrary. Yet much of the crime prevention literature fits quite neatly into seven major institutional settings: 1) communities, 2) families, 3) schools, 4) labor markets, 5) places, 6) police agencies and 7) the other agencies of criminal justice. The definitions of these settings for crime prevention are quite broad, and sometimes they overlap. But as a framework for organizing research findings on crime prevention effectiveness, we find them quite

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