Community Corrections

Results from Chicago’s Project Safe Neighborhoods showed a 37 percent decrease each month in homicide cases. Before Project Safe Neighborhoods was created the homicide rate was up to 60 percent. Not only did Chicago see a difference in homicide rates, but, those who attended the small community programs were 30 percent less likely to return to prison. Research done through a survey with a 150 offenders showed that the small programs made a positive impact on showing a good relationship between the police and offenders. The

Low income and poverty areas are a serious target in confronting crimes. The growing number of drug dealers, drug users, vice crime, and hooliganism threatens the economic process among these affected areas. In determining what kinds of information to collect to address problems such as drugs, prostitution and vandalism the S.A.R.A. (Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment) process would be deemed as the most efficient. We should determine the problem areas, for example, acknowledged criminals within the area who linger and commit crimes within the low-income housing areas. The vast majority of the time the people, which commit crimes within these areas do not have a residence in the community. We have a duty to ourselves, to establish the people or residents who assist these well-known criminals in their felonious activities and attempt to do something to prevent this type of cooperative activity. Several of the criminals that linger in these areas typically have safe domains to occupy among the housing community due to either influence or fear of the people in these domiciles. Another issue is that local business owners do not condemn these people from loitering around or in their businesses. As a result, this causes additional traffic around the store and attracts additional attention to the

The policy and problem identified in this policy analysis recognized the significance of the problem. Their goal was to address the issue of deterrence, public safety, and restoring neighborhoods to a safe environment for kids and the elderly to live. The plan outlines challenges for interactions with local residents and attracting more business to make the area a desirable place for residents and visitors to patronize. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of police foot patrol as a means of deterrence through apprehension and as a means of risk reduction, community and problem oriented policing, high crime neighborhood hot spots, and violence prevention.

This article describes a project in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood that is designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project was a comprehensive, community wide program designed to reduce serious violence in Chicago’s gang-ridden Little Village neighborhood. The main goal of this project was to reduce the extremely high level of serious gang violence, first at the individual youth gang member level, and then at both the gang and community level. The project appeared to reduce arrests for violent crimes, serious violent crimes, and drug crimes, but did not have an effect on arrests for property crimes or total arrests.

Decreasing crime is a major effect of installing a Neighborhood Watch program. Adults can take turns on who watches for crime on an agreed schedule. Someone may even volunteer to buy video cameras to ensure safety. This will make crime reduce significantly in the Alpena community. Realistically, not everyone will be willing to participate, but even a few volunteers will suffice. Imagine a community where there is little to no crime, because every criminal know they will be seen by their neighbor, friends parents, or family members. Every neighborhood will be at least a little bit safer.

Gun violence is a problem that has been growing in many cities across the United States. It is important for Federal and local Law Enforcement agencies to work together to enforce the Project Safe Neighborhoods and other projects similar in cities and communities where the homicide and gun violence rates are crucially high. It is each officer’s duty to make sure we do our duty as Law Enforcement to provide safe neighborhoods and save lives every day. By placing Project Safe Neighborhoods in high crime areas, the project will put in place and enforce new programs and policies for those who have committed gun crimes and are reoccurring felons. Through the use

For the past decades, the United State criminal justice system have gone through many changes. As police departments grown so do the crimes in our communities. Law enforcements officers and few scholars have tried to figure out the cause of crimes. Moreover, what need to be done to reduce limit crimes in urban neighborhoods across the United states.

There are several law enforcement agencies that have incorporated community-oriented policing programs as a part of their philosophy. The key element to community policing is crime prevention. Memphis police department and Pasadena police department have formed partnerships with their communities to help in reducing recidivism. Each of these agencies has several community policing programs that they have established to improve the quality of life for their citizens. Memphis and Pasadena have a program that is targeted for juveniles. Memphis’s is a Community Outreach Program (C.O.P.) that was developed to reduce juvenile violence. Pasadena’s came up with the diversion program,

At the neighborhood level, we used three variables. The first variable is the number of liquor stores in neighborhoods. A growing body of literature suggests that concentration of liquor stores is related to crime and arrest counts (Conrow, Aldstadt, & Mendoza, 2015; Gorman, Speer, Gruenewald, & Labouvie, 2015; Lipton et al., 2013; White, Gainey, & Triplett, 2012; Zhu, Gorman, & Horel, 2004). The second variable is the percent vacant houses in neighborhoods. Studies suggest that high number of vacant houses is a robust indicator of neighborhood deterioration (Hannon & Cuddy, 2006; Spelman, 1993). These areas cause criminals to gather around for certain criminal purposes (i.e., drug use, selling, burglary) that foster deviant behavior (Hannon & Cuddy, 2006; Newman, 1972).

Crime is everywhere in America. Different places react in different ways to the same ideas. The question being asked is, “Are certain policies and procedures effective and/or ineffective and why?” In my opinion, crime prevention is measured not by methods and intentions, but by the outcome of the procedure/policy. Honestly, no matter how brilliant the policy or procedure may be, the result will not be the same in one place than it is in another. For example, training police in community policing may not directly reduce crime in the community. In order to learn whether certain policies or procedures can reduce violent crime in different places, strong programs should help out. In other words, “strong” programs with rank should address multiple

Crime prevention through environmental design through changing neighborhoods in order to keep criminals off the street(Zahm, 2007).

They examined 102 evaluations of situationally focused crime prevention projects and evaluated 574 observations by using certain search strategy, inclusion and coding strategies, and quantitative analytical approach, including the gross effect (GE), net effect (NE), the total net effect (TNE), and the weighted displacement quotient (WDQ) (Bowers and Johnson, 2003; Clarke and Eck, 2005). They found that the possibility of diffusion of benefits (27%) was even a little bit greater than the possibility of displacement (26%). This provided the consistent support for the argument that crime did not simply relocate because of the situational intervention, however, its opposite, the diffusion of benefit was more likely to happen. Moreover, even though displacement could happen in some situation, crimes tended to be less than before, so the initiatives were surely

In this paper, I would like to explains the crime prevention program called the Neighbourhood Watch Program which is responsible to prevent crime and harm within a community. In this paper, I would like to explain the reason behind the program, how it works to control the crime, and the relationship between policing and community.

The way the community can prevent this behavior is by looking out for the neighbor to make sure there is no unknown stranger walking around, having a neighborhood watch program so no property is being destroyed. Neighbors can keep an eye out for one another’s children, to make sure they are not involved in any deviant behavior. “Thus, we conceptualize informal social control as the willingness of neighborhood residents to actively engage in behaviors aimed at preventing criminal and deviant behavior in the local area, with a particular emphasis on the deviant behavior of youth,” (Silver and Miller, 2004, p.553). Another key factor is social cohesion; this is the blocks capacity to be able to take away from crime and deviance to a minimum. Neighbors are able to exercise informal social control over youths due to social and organizational ties, neighborhood attachment, happy with the police work in the neighborhood, and legal

CCTV cameras help in various ways. Including the detection and prevention of crime and improving safety. Neighborhood watch encourages citizen involvement in crime prevention. Neighborhood watch relies on two mechanisms in order to prevent crime, including the increasing active guardianship and intervention on the part of residents, and reducing criminal opportunities by creating an image of