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1 results foundAuthor: Whelan, Stephanie Title: CREATING PERSPECTIVE A Blueprint for Crime Prevention and Community Safety by the Community for the Community. An ACRO Report of Experiences and Attitudes Toward Crime and Crime Prevention on the Gold Coast Summary: Traditional approaches to crime have focused upon the response to an offense once it has been committed and rely upon detection of crime, apprehension and detention of those responsible for crime as the tools to hopefully reduce future crime occurrences. There is scant evidence that these reactive measures have an anticipated preventive affect on future crime. A more intelligent direction in the debate on crime has seen the development of reduction of opportunity and reduction of desire approaches. The former of these seeks to restrict the ability for crime to occur by eliminating (or reducing) targets for crime (commonly referred to as ‘target hardening’), the latter of which seeks to reduce the likelihood of crime through social development measures. Specific groups within communities are historically identified as experiencing and reporting greater fear or concern about crime. Women, older members of the community and previous victims of crime are groups that are identified as exhibiting heightened levels of concern about crime. This concern is viewed, by the authors, as legitimate in the context of the perceived severity of consequences from possible victimisation and the vulnerability that these groups experience. The authors have adopted a simple definition for crime prevention that is not driven by philosophy nor politics: “any act that prevents crime from occurring is an act of crime prevention”, and further, “that crime prevention is not defined by its intentions but by its consequences”. This research has sought to provide perspective for the Gold Coast in relation to social issues of real concern to individual members and in the knowledge that others share these common concerns. This Research was undertaken on the premise that effective crime prevention requires the activation of community-based partnerships to deal with the causes of crime from a social justice perspective. That is, crime is influenced by issues such as family dysfunction, unemployment, economic disadvantage (to name a few) and that crime and fear of crime can only be dealt with in tandem with efforts to minimize risk factors occasioned by these other matters. The current research further proceeded on the premise that a whole-of-Council, whole-of-government and whole-of-community response is necessary to deal with the complexities of social constructs that contribute to the commissioning of crime and the escalation of concern of crime within the community. Finally, this research was premised upon the notion that effective community and government based partnerships require information about the community in which the partnership is to operate and that the community should actively participate in the work of any crime prevention partnerships to ensure ownership of the process. Details: Lutwyche, Qld. : ACRO Australian Community Safety & Research Organisation, 1998. 82p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 2, 2012 at: http://www.acro.com.au/Reports/Gold%20Coast%20Report.pdf Year: 1998 Country: Australia URL: http://www.acro.com.au/Reports/Gold%20Coast%20Report.pdf Shelf Number: 124335 Keywords: Community PartnershipsCrime Prevention (Australia, Gold Coast) |