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Results for communities and crime (australia)
1 results foundAuthor: Allard, Troy Title: Targeting Crime Prevention to Reduce Offending: Identifying communities that generate chronic and costly offenders Summary: This study explored whether some communities generate chronic and costly offenders. It draws on methods and findings from criminal careers, and crime and place research. Criminal careers research is focused on the individual and is concerned with the different offending patterns developed over the life course. The research presented in this paper uses the Semi-Parametric Group-based Method (SPGM) to identify offenders on different trajectories, who differ in terms of their age of initiation and pattern of offending over the lifecourse (Kreuter & Muthén 2008). This research has found a small group of chronic offenders who began offending early in life and who account for a large proportion of offences (Allard et al. under review; Cohen, Piquero & Jennings 2010a, 2010b; Piquero 2008). There has recently been renewed interest in place-based approaches for targeting crime prevention, such as justice reinvestment. This project linked research from life course and place-based criminology to explore whether some communities generated chronic and costly offenders. The Semi-Parametric Group-based Method was used to identify non-normative or chronic offenders in the 1990 Queensland Longitudinal Dataset (n=14,171). The postal areas generating chronic offenders were identified based on the proportion of the population who were chronic offenders and the overall cost of chronic offenders. The offender’s first recorded postal area was used to assign location. The top 10 percent of postal areas generating chronic offenders accounted for 20.5 percent of chronic offenders. The top 10 percent of most costly locations contained 40.4 percent of chronic offenders and 50.5 percent of the total cost of chronic offenders. The identified locations had a high proportion of Indigenous youth, were in remote or very remote locations and experienced high levels of disadvantage. The authors conclude that there is an urgent need for therapeutic and place-based interventions to reduce crime and victimisation in these communities. Details: Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 2012. 8p. Source: Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice No. 445: Internet Resource: Accessed September 24, 2012 at http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/A/C/%7B6AC251B0-13F8-4B36-B5DC-546FFB1EA452%7Dtandi445.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/A/C/%7B6AC251B0-13F8-4B36-B5DC-546FFB1EA452%7Dtandi445.pdf Shelf Number: 126412 Keywords: Chronic Offenders (Australia)Communities and Crime (Australia)Costs of Crime (Australia)Crime Prevention (Australia) |