PROGRAMS IN CRIME PREVENTION

• NCJ Number: 32017
• Author(s): R S PARRY
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: University of Toronto
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: Canada
• Note: PAPER PRESENTED AT THE CRIME PREVENTION WORKSHOP HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CENTRE OF CRIMINOLOGY ON MAY 21ST AND 22ND, 1975

Annotation

SEVERAL APPROACHES TO CRIME PREVENTION ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED, FROM GENERAL SOCIALIZATION PROGRAMS SUCH AS SCHOOLS AND ANTI-CRIME INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS TO SPECIFIC TREATMENT PROGRAMS FOR IDENTIFIED OFFENDERS.

Abstract

A NEW CONSTRUCT FOR CLASSIFYING CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS IS PROPOSED, INVOLVING THREE LEVELS OF CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS: PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY. PRIMARY PROGRAMS IN CRIME PREVENTION ARE DEFINED AS THOSE PRESENTED ON A COMMUNITY-WIDE BASIS PRIOR TO IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS AS OFFENDERS. PROGRAMS FALLING WITHIN THE SECONDARY PREVENTION AREA ARE THOSE GEARED TOWARD PERSONS OR GROUPS IDENTIFIED AS 'HIGH RISK' AND LIKELY TO ACT IN A TROUBLESOME OR ANTISOCIAL MANNER BUT NOT AS YET WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. TERTIARY PROGRAMS ARE THOSE WORKING WITH THE IDENTIFIED OFFENDER, THE GOAL BEING PREVENTION OF RECIDIVISM. WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK, THE AUTHOR THEN PROVIDES SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)