NCJ Number
164757
Editor(s)
P-O H Wikstrom,
R V Clarke,
J McCord
Date Published
1995
Length
351 pages
Annotation
Crime prevention measures were discussed according to two main groups, measures that reduce individual propensity to commit crime and measures that reduce the occurrence of criminogenic situations, at an integrative criminology conference held in Sweden in 1994.
Abstract
Conference participants noted that research and theory in the two areas of crime prevention have generally developed separately and are poorly integrated and that crime prevention strategies within and outside the criminal justice system are also poorly integrated. Conference participants addressed different facets of crime prevention, focusing on influencing propensity and situation and how these approaches could be integrated. Specific conference presentations covered an integrated approach to crime prevention based on self-control, temptations, frictions, and punishment; motivational crime prevention strategies and the role of opportunity; opportunity- reducing crime prevention strategies and the role of motivation; law and crime prevention; and the role of police in crime prevention. Conference presentations also dealt with crime and punishment in the United States, deterrence, incapacitation, promoting human capability as an alternative to early crime prevention, juvenile delinquency prevention strategies, environmental criminology and crime prevention, immigrants and crime prevention, community policing, violence prevention, and key issues in the integration of motivational and opportunity- reducing crime prevention strategies. References, notes, tables, and figures