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Crime prevention series

What is community-based crime prevention?

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Crime prevention for migrant communities
Kayleen M Hazlehurst
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990
ISBN 0 642 15514 3 ; ISSN 1031-5330
(Crime prevention series)

Abstract

Community care and community responsibility are the foundation stones of community based crime prevention. This chapter discusses the community as a force for good; defines environmental defence (situational crime prevention) and social defence planning; and outlines three community intervention approaches to crime problems: crisis intervention, alternative dispute resolution or mediation, and a primary prevention approach.