Commentary on community safety in Germany

Matt, Eduard

doi:10.1057/cpcs.2011.14

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“…From their experience supporting crime prevention in deprived neighbourhoods in Tulsa, OK, USA, Corsaro and Engel [40] (e) working in alliance between (embedded) researchers and practitioners (see [41]). Even if these factors are familiar to partnerships internationally, British experiences show that variations in overall aims decide the balance between the components [27]; furthermore, the implementation in Germany was uneven and not supported by evidence and had hard time integrating citizen perspectives [42], while the influence in Spain was hampered from the lack of a supporting national framework [43], and the reduction in crime, somewhat paradoxically, resulted in a decreased interest in safer city/partnership approaches [44].…”

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Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden

Alstam

Forkby

2022

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In Sweden, local municipalities, working in collaboration with the police, are assigned an important role in community-based crime prevention and the promotion of safer neighbourhoods/cities. The strategies adopted are supposed to be informed by the policies of national advisory bodies, which emphasize surveying the current situation, problem analyses, systematic planning of interventions and evaluation of efforts. This paper reports on a three-year research project that studied local crime prevention/safer community practices in four so-called ‘particularly vulnerable areas’ (PVAs) using meeting observations and stakeholder interviews. The analysis shows that when constructing intervention strategies, the actors involved had to navigate between different organizational logics and found it difficult to demarcate a suitable object for joint efforts. When they were able to find an object to be targeted, such as youth at risk of drug abuse or low-level criminality, they could rely on a collective mindset, but they struggled in situations where a joint effort was not possible, such as when dealing with the risk of aggravated violence or when the operations got close to more organized crime—both elements that form part of the definition of PVAs. This failure may partly be explained by competing logics dominated by idiosyncratic action in line with bureaucratic rules and routines. This finding raises questions about a putative but non-articulated limit to crime prevention and whether a predetermined approach aligns with the prescribed sequence of survey, analysis, intervention planning and evaluation when faced with more brutish violence.

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Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden

Alstam

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2022

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“…Creating trust and offering services to local communities helps generate virtuous cycles of institutional transformation and national development (World Bank, 2011). Under this concept, community safety is narrowed to a focus on corrective action in cases where punitive methods fail, and step is performed at the community level to remedy these imbalances (Matt, 2011;Whitzman, 2008).…”

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Correlates of Crime Prevention and Perception of Safety Using the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior (KAB) Model

Patalinghug,

Gaston Sarcena,

Bustamante

et al. 2023

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As empirical studies have progressed, various metrics and study areas have been incorporated into safety perception and worry about victimization. In this study, the Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior Model was applied in evaluating the cognitive and emotional domains of 401 residents of Zamboanga del Sur, Phillipines focusing on their knowledge of crime prevention, safety perception, and fears of victimization. Using the model, the knowledge of crime prevention, safety perception, and fear of victimization was considered an exploratory variable based on the common-sense assumption that feelings and emotions govern how people perceive certain things. The result shows that implemented crime prevention strategies in the province were observable, and community awareness is considerable. Regarding safety and security, the respondents rated the province as safe for everyone and moderately safe when personal belongings are left unattended. The threats to physical safety and security against persons and property are less likely to occur. Finally, the data show a statistically significant weak positive correlation between crime prevention and the perception of safety and security. The associations of safety and security and general satisfaction with personal safety among the representative samples show a significant positive weak correlation. Knowledge of crime prevention strategy and general satisfaction with personal safety shows a weak, statistically significant positive correlation. Thus, awareness of crime prevention significantly influences the safety perception, level of worry, and satisfaction with personal safety.

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Commentary on community safety in Germany

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Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden

Finding a Suitable Object for Intervention: On Community-Based Violence Prevention in Sweden

Correlates of Crime Prevention and Perception of Safety Using the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior (KAB) Model

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