Achieving crime preventionDRAFT

Metropolis Seminar:

Police, Justice and Security in a Diverse Canada

Ross Hastings

Ottawa: February 25, 2008

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Challenges for Prevention

1. Proactive response to risk vs respect for rights and preferences of target individuals/communities

2. The apparent consensus over prevention vs resistance to change

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Outline of the paper

1. Crime prevention: vision, strategies and approaches to implementation

2. The sources of resistance to change

3. Building an evidence base: recommendations

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Recommendations

1. Focus on impacts: definitions and data needs

2. R & D: key ingredients of success/failure

3. Understanding the variations in newcomer and immigrant communities: local studies

4. Develop relationships and share power = key to avoiding exclusion and the reproduction of inequality

5. A national framework for responsibilities and accountability