cjm 69: Prevention
Leading thinkers and policy makers critically consider different approaches to prevention in the latest edition of Criminal Justice Matters. The magazine looks at a range of issues including, early intervention, preventing corporate crime, CCTV, crime mapping, the government's flagship Sure Start scheme and includes an interview with the Director of the Social Exclusion Taskforce, Naomi Eisenstadt.
Editorial (Adobe PDF, 85KB) - Rebecca Roberts and Enver Solomon
Looking at the whole picture (Adobe PDF, 164KB) - an interview with Naomi Eisenstadt, Director of the Social Exclusion Taskforce.
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Full list of articles in print version of cjm 69
- EDITORIAL - PREVENTION
Rebecca Roberts and Enver Solomon put this issue in context. - HOME VISITING NURSES - PREVENTING CRIME BY IMPROVING PRE-NATAL AND INFANT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
David L Olds looks at how pre-natal and early years care can play a role in crime prevention. - PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION WITH YOUNG CHILDREN: THE SURE START PROGRAMME
Karen Clarke suggests that the focus of Sure Start programmes on poor parenting ignored the effect of poverty on families. - CHILD CRIMINALISATION AND THE MISTAKE OF EARLY INTERVENTION
Barry Goldson asserts that history has taught us that diversion is more effective than intervention. - YOUTH JUSTICE: REARRANGING THE DECKCHAIRS OR REAL REFORM?
Rod Morgan contends that the Brown government has the capacity and motivation to deliver a more preventative approach to youth crime. - A NEW APPROACH TO `DYSFUNCTIONAL' BRITAIN
Iain Duncan Smith MP outlines the proposals of the Social Justice Policy Group to address the problems of social breakdown in the UK. - NIPPING CRIME IN THE BUD: DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION IN INFANCY
Ros Burnett discusses the thinking behind research on very early risk factors and looks at the ethics of interventions in infancy. - MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR PREVENTING CRIME
Adam Crawford charts the highs and lows of the government's relationship with crime prevention. - REDUCING VICTIMISATION AND FOCUSING PUBLIC SPENDING WHERE IT WORKS
Irvin Waller sets out why prevention is always more effetive than deterrence. - LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PICTURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH NAOMI EISENSTADT
Enver Solomon and Roger Grimshaw of CCJS talked to Naomi Eisenstadt, Director of the Social Exclusion Taskforce. - ALLEY-GATES: PREVENTING CRIME OR ISOLATING COMMUNITIES?
Colin Rogers looks at the pros and cons of alley-gates. - NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES - CHARTING THE PROGRESS OF LABOUR'S CRIME PREVENTION POLICY
Daniel Gilling argues that there are even stronger reasons now for implementing the recommendations of the 1991 Morgan Report. - TAKEN IN BY CCTV TECHNOLOGY
Nic Groombridge argues that CCTV should not be such an important part of current crime prevention strategy. - HOW DO WE FIND OUT WHAT WORKS?
Mike Hough questions the thinking behind current evaluation of crime reduction schemes and calls for a broader, more inclusive approach. - MAPPING OUT CRIME PREVENTION
Lisa Tompson describes the many ways crime mapping can be used to prevent crime and how it is being applied in new, previously untried areas. - LOCKING UP THE VICTIM - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE POLICY LOOKS IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
Greta Squire argues that the benefits to domestic violence victims of `sanctuary schemes' and `panic rooms' in their own homes have been exaggerated. - PREVENTING CORPORATE CRIME
Anne Alvesalo, Steve Tombs, Erja Virta and Dave Whyte argue that situational crime prevention should be used to prevent corporate crime. - DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF DRUGS AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
Frank Warburton argues that government strategy does not reflect the complexity of drug crime.