Prevention

Community Policing While past incidences have affected police and minority relationships, the media has been no stranger in further causing distrust and fear. The role of the media needs to change by working with police to educate the public about the positive aspects involved in fostering positive relationships with local officers to truly affect change. Our police officers are the eyes and the ears of society to serve and protect citizens. However, the police do not have the resources to be…

approach across many disciplines. There is a powerful synergy between what children need in order to thrive and avoid negative outcomes and what the family support and child maltreatment prevention practice community has been working toward for many years. Research bears this out. Traditionally, child maltreatment prevention and intervention strategies have…

Levine & Smolak (2009) posits that the measure of any successful prevention program is the defining of its purpose. What is the overall goal that the program is attempting to prevent? “Thus, defining what problem behaviors or risk factors are to be prevented (or changed) and which protective factors or health enhancing behaviors are to be strengthened is the starting point” (Levine & Smolak, 2009, p ). The identified program for this proposal is eating disorders or eating disturbances. Both…

Learning about major crime preventions and environment theories has helped me to expand my knowledge regarding this subject. Geographical displacement occurs when the intervention blocks crime or disorder opportunities at a place or area. Therefore, offenders move to other places or areas to keep continue to commit crimes. Temporal displacement is when offenders keep committing crimes at the same location or area but in different days or hours. “Temporal displacement can be easier for offenders…

why and the how behind crime, we must first focus on understanding the three primary theoretical principals associated with crime prevention. The use of basic premises such as rational choice theory, routine activities theory, and crime pattern theory have helped criminologist establish direct correlations between offender’s psychological state of mind and crime prevention as it provided answers to more in-depth issues associated with crime. Rational choice theory embodies a framework that…

Importance of Drug Use Prevention Statistics show that many drug users begin abusing drugs as young as 12 years old, but this could be prevented by the early implementations of drug prevention programs in schools. Determining effective prevention programs based upon community demographics could significantly decrease future drug use in communities. Adolescence is a time of transition from dependence on parents and family to self-actualization. During this transitional period, many adolescents…

policing comprehend the fact that the police cannot successfully deal with every pressing issue alone. They must join with others who share a mutual obligation for resolving problems that occur. Community based policing stresses early identification, prevention, and timely interference to deal with issues before they become unmanageable problems. The Officers are tasked with the responsibility to bring together both governmental and private resources in order to achieve positive results. They…

There are multiple measures that we could do to help reduce the rates of suicide deaths. Improved surveillance and monitoring of suicide attempts is the main core element to help focus on suicide prevention (WHO, 2016). Some proposed actions that the nation and our community could advocate is the use of training for health care workers and especially for non-specialized health workers. They are able to seek early identification of suicidal behavior…

of disability throughout the world by the year 2020. This is one of the primary drivers for inflated healthcare costs. This needs to be focus point for healthcare providers to positively impact the healthcare and lower costs. Implementing disease prevention programs is the start to reducing healthcare costs. First and foremost,…

training and mobilized police and changing the culture in the communities. The city has begun recruiting for new police officers from other cities outside of Tennessee. “Through the Local Operation: Safe Community crime plan, we are focused on breaking the cycle of delinquency by reducing the number of repeat offenders and, by doing that, hopefully reducing the number of juveniles who move toward committing serious offenses,” said president of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission and executive…