Presentation - Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center
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COMPARING POLICE STRATEGIES AND CRIME REDUCTION<br />
Strategy Underlying Hypothesis Effectiveness Evidence<br />
Increase Police<br />
umbers<br />
R<strong>and</strong>om patrol<br />
M<strong>and</strong>atory arrest<br />
Community contact<br />
in general<br />
Contact with young<br />
people<br />
Rapid response<br />
Intelligence-led<br />
policing<br />
Directed patrol<br />
More police=less crime<br />
Deterrence through<br />
police omnipresence<br />
More arrests=less crime<br />
More <strong>and</strong> better<br />
community contact =less<br />
crime<br />
More <strong>and</strong> better contact<br />
with young people =less<br />
crime<br />
The faster the response<br />
to incidents=less crime<br />
Target prolific offences<br />
or offenders, increased<br />
arrest rate=less crime<br />
Focus patrol on ‘hot<br />
spots’ <strong>and</strong> ‘hot times’<br />
=less crime<br />
Inconclusive<br />
Ineffective<br />
Effective in some contexts,<br />
ineffective in others; can<br />
result in defiance<br />
Ineffective<br />
Kelling et al. (1974); Clarke<br />
<strong>and</strong> Hough (1984)<br />
Kelling et al. (1974); Audit<br />
Commission (1996)<br />
Sherman <strong>and</strong> Berk (1984);<br />
Sherman et al. (1992)<br />
Skolnick <strong>and</strong> Bayley (1988);<br />
Trojanowicz <strong>and</strong> Bucqueroux<br />
(1998); Fielding (1995)<br />
Inconclusive Heal <strong>and</strong> Laycock (1987)<br />
Inconclusive<br />
May be effective in some<br />
contexts<br />
May be effective in some<br />
contexts; ineffective in<br />
others (e.g.drugs)<br />
Pate et al. (1976); Coupe<br />
<strong>and</strong> Griffiths (1996)<br />
Audit Commission (1993);<br />
Stockdale <strong>and</strong> Gresham (1995,<br />
1998); Maguire (2000); Innes<br />
(2000); Heaton (2000)<br />
Stockdale <strong>and</strong> Grsham<br />
(1998); May et al. (2000);<br />
Best et al. (2001)<br />
Sources:<br />
997-998<br />
Jordan 1998; Sherman 1992a, 1993; Reiner 2000a: 121-4. (Taken from the Oxford H<strong>and</strong>book of Criminology, 3rd Edition, 2002) Page No.
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