Crime Control - A Proposal for the Netherlands

• NCJ Number: 92871
• Journal: Police Studies Volume: 6 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1983-84) Pages: 13-17
• Author(s): F J Lameris
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 5 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Revised and edited version of an article that has previously appeared in Beleid en Meatschappij, 1982, 6, and Tijdschrift voor de Politie, 1982, 12.

Annotation

It is impossible for police and other justice agencies to formulate an effective crime control policy because criminal behavior is affected by too many factors outside their control.

Abstract

The author suggests a coordinating mechanism by which the resources of other relevant government departments as well as the citizenry may be mobilized for crime control. Such a mechanism, by combining the 'repressive face' with the 'welfare face' of modern government, may help to combat the malaise that seems to be characteristic of the contemporary welfare state. This article was translated from the Dutch by Fransjan Mulschlegel. (Publisher abstract)