CRIM 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Drug Abuse Resistance Education, York Regional Police, Police Legitimacy
15 Mar 2016
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Basic mission of police = prevent crime & prevenion. Crime prevenion: aimed at reducing crime, fostering community involvement, and strengthening ciizen"s percepions of safety, crime prevenion iniiaives categorized as: Primary prevenion programs: most common prevenion program, designed to alter condiions that provide opportuniies for criminal ofences, examples of primary programs: More helpful in solving crimes than prevening. Problem: usually organized by people who live in safe communiies. Secondary prevenion programs: target areas that produce crime and other types of disorder, some iniiaives focus on idenifying at-risk ofenders and analysing high-crime areas, police services increasingly developing these programs through public/private partnership, examples: at-risk youth programs. Auto-thet in winnipeg: watss: 2001-2008 winnipeg was auto thet capital of n,a, 20% of all crimes were auto thets. Most thet by young people as young as 10: 2005 crisis point. Watss: winnipeg auto thet suppression strategy (wattss, wats. Integrated team of police, crown, correcions, and community.
