A Best Practices Approach to the Crime Problem

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A Best Practices Approach to the Crime Problem

• Transforming Communities
• Transforming Lives

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Rethinking Crime Prevention

• The punishment vs. prevention dichotomy
• Severely limits policy options
• Unintended consequences of the war on crime
• Increasing arrest rates leave children in poverty
• Children with incarcerated parents suffer from a
  lack of mentoring and close bonds
• Previously incarcerated individuals returning to
  a community face even greater obstacles

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Approaches to Crime Prevention

• Proactive

• Reactive

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Best Practice Approaches to Crime
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Considering the Consequences of Crime Prevention
Strategies

• The necessity of a broader definition of crime
  preventionwith a focus on

Reducing Risk Factors
Increasing protective factors
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Identifying Risk for Criminality and
Victimization
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Protecting Against Criminality
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Changing the Way We Fight Crime
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Anti-Crime Efforts Examples of What Works

• Prevention
• Perry Preschool
• Early Intervention Approaches
• Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
• Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
• CASASTART
• Gang Intervention
• Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project
• Policing Strategies
• Operation Ceasefire
• Reentry Initiatives
• Project RIO
• Safer Foundation

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In Our Own Backyard A Sampling of What Dallas
Is Doing