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A two-dimensional typology of crime prevention projects: With a bibliography

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The term "crime prevention" Is a widely used concept with a loosely defined meaning. For some authors the term crime prevention refers to conventional criminal justice policies. We prefer a definition which helps to bring into focus alternative or special crime prevention programs. In this paper crime prevention is defined as: "the total of all private intitatives and state polices, other than the enforcement of criminal law, aimed at the reduction of damage caused by acts defined as criminal by the state." This definition covers fear reduction programmes, since fear can be seen as a damaging result of (perceived) criminality. lt also covers victim assistance polices since these can be viewed as a form of damage control. lncluded are also the prevention activities of the police, like general surveillance and the treatment or training of (ex) offenders. Excluded are the investigation and prosecution of crimes, sentencing and the execution of conventional punish­ments.
... Social prevention is a set of measures and precautionary measures that seek to eliminate or counteract the factors that affect the development of crime (Ekblom, 2017;Van Dijk & De Waard, 1991). Preventive measures address the circumstances, circumstances and circumstances that place the perpetrator at the brink of committing a crime. ...
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... Crime prevention, though a widely used concept, only has a loosely defined agreed meaning (van Dijk & de Waard, 1991). The definition applied in the study is the one recently adopted by EUCPN, i.e. "ethically acceptable and evidence-based activities aimed at reducing the risk of crimes occurring and its harmful consequences with the ultimate goal of working towards the improvement of the quality of life and safety of individuals, groups and communities" (EUCPN, 2019). ...
... The complexity is especially prominent when considering coercive enforcement and the idea of prevention as a form of soft power. Van Dijk and De Waard (1991) have defined crime prevention as a noncoercive alternative to the enforcement of criminal law, that is, investigation, charge, trial and punishment. Preventive/proactive and investigative/reactive policing are still viewed as fundamentally different and separate activities by the police and are in most countries regulated by different legislation and by separate police and prosecution agencies. ...
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