Crime Prevention Models and Police Community Relations

Empey Lamar T. , “Crime Prevention: The Fugitive Utopia” in Glaser Daniel , Handbook of Criminology (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1974).

DuBow Fred and Emmons David , “The Community Hypothesis” in Lewis Dan A. (ed.). Reactions to Crime (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981) p. 171.

Ibid.

Ibid.

McPherson Mary and Silloway Glenn , “Planning to Prevent Crime” in Lewis , Reactions to Crime, pp. 149–166.

Boostrom Ronald L. and Henderson Joel H. , “Community Action and Crime Prevention: Some Unresolved Issues” in Crime and Social Justice, 19(Summer 1983).

National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, Community Crime Prevention, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.

There are several problems with this model that are well-documented in the literature. The reader is referred to Boostrom Ronald L. and Henderson Joel H. , “Crime Prevention and Social Policy: Some Conceptual and Operational Problems,” paper presented at the IX International Congress on Criminology, Vienna, Austria, September 1983, for a discussion of these problems.

See Gross Bertram , “Some Anticrime Proposals for Progressives,” Crime and Social Justice, 17 (Spring, 1982).

As with the previous model, several problems have been identified that are associated with mobilizing the community to increase the effectiveness of individual security. The reader is directed to Boostrom Ronald L. and Henderson Joel H. , “Crime Prevention and Social Policy: Some Conceptual and Operational Problems,” paper presented at the IX International Congress on Criminology, Vienna, Austria, September 1983, for a brief discussion of these problems.

This is a concept coined and explained by Newman. For a discussion, see Newman Oscar , Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design (New York: MacMillan, 1972).

Rosenthal Seymour J. , “Turf Reclamation: An Approach to Neighbourhood Security,” HUD Challenge, March 1974, pp. 1–3.

For a discussion of problems associated with this model see Boostrom Ronald L. and Henderson Joel H. , “Crime Prevention and Social Policy: Some Conceptual and Operational Problems,” paper presented at the IX International Congress on Criminology, Vienna, Austria, September 1983.