NCJ Number
209846
Journal
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice Volume: 47 Issue: 2 Dated: April 2005 Pages: 293-316
Date Published
April 2005
Length
24 pages
Annotation
This article examines the absence of gender-specific strategies within crime prevention work in Canada and internationally.
Abstract
Internationally, governmental and community-based crime prevention programs have demonstrated an absence of gender-specific programming. While there has been an immense amount of research and prevention programming focused on violence against women and women’s safety, these women-focused approaches have not been integrated into mainstream crime prevention programming. The authors review international policy and practice regarding women’s safety and illustrate how this world of crime prevention has been isolated from mainstream crime prevention programs, crippling the efforts of both movements. Despite the traditional separation of gender from crime prevention strategy, Canada has had some successes in engendering crime prevention initiatives; these successes are reviewed along with the programmatic failures in this area. Finally, four proposals are offered for the continued engendering of Canada’s crime prevention strategy. These four proposals involve creating a culture of evaluation, developing research and analysis capacities, continuing to build community collaborations, and providing an international leadership role on gender-sensitive crime prevention. Notes, references