Crime Reduction Initiatives
Activity
Explain the initiative to the rest of the group
Investigate an initiative you can find on the internet
Identify Own Examples of Case Studies of Crime Reduction Initiatives
Review the Case Studies in this MindMap
Case Studies
Neighbourhood watch was found in 1982 in Cheshire.
Avon and Summerset Prolific Offenders Scheme
The Avon and Somerset Prolific Offenders Scheme
Selection – The police select offenders on the basis of ‘age, frequency and nature of previous offences and custodial history’. They choose young adults who have many convictions and have done time in prison. If they can stop these prolific offenders from offending, then the crime rate in the area will go down.
Supervision – Offenders who are chosen for the scheme are forced to go on it. The main feature of the scheme is the level of supervision the offenders get. Normally offenders may have only one appointment a week with a probation officer or other worker. On the ASPOS scheme offenders get much more supervision: Specifically in the first six months the requirements would include:
* 4 appointments per week for the first 12 weeks
* 2 appointments per week for the second 12 weeks
* A review of level of reporting after 24 weeks
* Drug-testing twice per week in the first 4 weeks following custodyPartnership – The scheme involves a lot of cooperation between police and probation officers: ‘The exchange of information between probation and police ensures that each agency is intervening with the offender with the optimum amount of information’.
Tailored to offenders’ needs – The ASPOS programme uses a range of methods to help prolific offenders kick the burglary habit. ‘Each offender has an individual programme of intervention which includes surveillance, drug treatment, cognitive skills training, employment training and education, and challenges to offending’.
Avon and Somerset Prolific Offenders Scheme (ASPOS) targets those offenders who are causing the most damage to the community and for whom other sentencing options have failed. They concentrate on house burglars and car thieves, almost all of whom are driven to steal by the need to support a long-standing drug addiction
The Avon and Somerset Prolific Offenders Scheme was set up in April 2002 under the auspices of the Bristol Crime and Disorder Partnership with the aim of targeting the most prolific offenders in the Bristol area. The first partnership of its kind within the Avon and Somerset Police force area, and possibly anywhere in the country, the Prolific Offender Unit brings the police, prison and probation services together at both a strategic and an operational level. It is this unique combination that has contributed to the strength and the success of the scheme and which has attracted considerable interest both locally and naturally.
The purpose of the Avon and Summerset Prolific Offenders Scheme is to target the most active criminals, seeking to reduce crime in the communities it serves, through rehabilitation, enforcement and surveilance
PubWatch
Keeping crime out of the Ascot area
Police issue warning over a spate of 'fishing' burglaries through letterboxes
Restorative justice scheme halts reoffending
PC wages a one-man war on criminals
Crime figures down as Ladybird flies in to help
Thames Valley Alert
Police target burglaries and car crime in operation around Bracknell
New police figures name Bracknell as safest place in the Thames Valley
Thames Valley Police Watch Schemes and Initiatives
Crime and Disorder Act 1998
The Guardian
Wikipedia
Legislation.gov.uk
Reasons for:
Reduce fear of Crime
Reduce Crime
LOCAL CRIME REDCUTION INITIATIVES
Crime has a very high cost and impact on society. Although fighting crime and dealing with crime once it has occurred is important, of equal importance is the emphasis given to preventing crime and reducing the number of offences committed in the community. The police alone cannot be responsible for fighting and preventing crime. Preventing and reducing crime requires much more widespread involvement and support. Increasingly, it has been the role of local crime reduction INITIATIVES which involve different agencies working together to deal with crime and social problems that affect a particular area.
Local Authority Responsibilities
Each Local Authority in England and Wales was given the responsibility to formulate and implement a strategy to reduce crime and disorder in their area. The Act also requires the local authority to work with every police authority, probation authority, Strategic health authority, social landlords, the voluntary sector, and local residents and businesses. Known as Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) in England, and Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) in Wales, the Home Office may require any Partnership to supply details of their community safety arrangements.
This legislation meant that local authorities, police and other agencies could work in partnership to develop and implement strategies to reduce this sort of crime and disorder. The partnerships carry out an audit of crime and disorder every three years and publish a strategy for dealing with the problems it finds. The idea was that these strategies must reflect local needs and priorities which means different partnerships around the country will be tackling crime particular to their area.
THE CRIME AND DISORDER ACT 1998 created crime and disorder reduction partnerships in England and Wales. The Act covers crimes such as:
The aim of the youth justice system
Racially aggravated offences
Child safety orders
Parenting orders
Sex offender orders
Anti-social behaviour orders
