The Division of Labour in Crime Prevention: <scp>C</scp>rime <scp>S</scp>cience, <scp>C</scp>riminology and <scp>C</scp>riminal <scp>J</scp>ustice

Kautt, Paula; Pease, Ken

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2012.00733.x

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“…The typology has received some more recent attention in conceptual discussions of crime prevention, without further elaboration or development (e.g. (Kautt and Pease, 2012); Kautt and Pease, 2012;Gilling, 2019)…”

Section: A Typology Of Preventionmentioning

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Public Policy Reform and Police Prevention Practice: A Journey Upstream?

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Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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This article contributes to a growing body of research on the police reforms in Scotland. It examines the particular place given to prevention in public policy and its impact on police practice. We show how public policy reconfigured the place and purpose of prevention for the police, with a focus on safety, wellbeing, and the prevention of harm. The research draws on qualitative data collected in four areas as part of a 4-year evaluation of the police reforms. We refine a public health typology of prevention and operationalize it empirically for the first time to analyse cases of innovative practice. We distinguish a pattern of prevention practice heavily weighted towards secondary prevention, focused predominantly on issues of crime and disorder. In fewer cases, the police applied primary and tertiary prevention, with a focus on vulnerability and harm. Looking in detail at two cases, we illustrate the importance of collaboration for the police, which created opportunities and brought additional resources and expertise to support new prevention approaches which had a significant impact on effectiveness. The police realized collaborative advantage through common aims, trust-building, and leadership. We do not suggest this demonstrates a transformation in police prevention; it illustrates successful police innovation, and identifies the potential to go further. The implications for policy and practice are to recognize the value to the police of investing in new partnerships. They create opportunities for the police to collaborate, innovate, and focus more sharply on the prevention of harm.

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Section: A Typology Of Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Policy Reform and Police Prevention Practice: A Journey Upstream?

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Calder

Fyfe

et al. 2021

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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Thinking about Crime Prevention

Gilling

2017

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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On the basis of a brief historical sweep of developments in crime prevention in England and Wales, and of an examination of some specific examples of contestation, this article presents the argument that crime prevention is in essence a political matter, notwithstanding the desires of many who would wish to understand it in purely technical or scientific terms. It is suggested that practitioners need to appreciate and engage with the political nature of crime prevention in order to succeed in their pursuit of a path towards effective practice.

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The Division of Labour in Crime Prevention: Crime Science, Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Public Policy Reform and Police Prevention Practice: A Journey Upstream?

Public Policy Reform and Police Prevention Practice: A Journey Upstream?

Thinking about Crime Prevention

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