CRIM 1650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Steven N. Durlauf, Crime Prevention, Operation Ceasefire

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Research: certainty of punishment > severity of punishment. Threat of adult penalties did not act as deterrent. 2006 2014 safe streets & communities act: increased mandatory minimum sentences. Offenders don"t think they are going to get caught. Most offences are not reported, most reported don"t result in arrests, most arrest don"t lead to conviction, most convictions don"t lead to imprisonment. The impact of increasing the certainty of punishment. Increase of severity of punishment doesn"t have deterrent effects. Hot spots policing: concentration of police resources on high crime areas. Individualized deterrence: offenders heavily influenced in crimes warned that their actions are being monitored. Small number of addresses produce high percentage of calls to police. Focusing police resources on high-crime areas reduces crime by increasing certainty of apprehension. Directly informing people about consequences from future behaviour and keeping those promises. Gang violence reduction program called operation ceasefire: project safe neighbourhoods. Reduce high rates of non-compliance with probation requiring abstinence from drugs.

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