Situational Crime Prevention
1/04/2016
Situational Crime Prevention discourages crime by doing things that make committing a crime more difficult, risky, or less rewarding or excusable.
1/04/2016
Situational Crime Prevention discourages crime by doing things that make committing a crime more difficult, risky, or less rewarding or excusable.
1/10/2017
Enforcement of speed limit for traffic, such as patrolling and speed cameras, reduces speed levels, road crashes and injuries.
1/10/2017
Supervision is a community-based sentence that targets adult offenders convicted of less serious offences who have relatively straight-forward rehabilitation needs and a lower risk of reoffending.
1/03/2017
‘Therapeutic interventions’ are therapies (e. g. counselling, psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioural programmes) designed to help IPV victims to manage its psychological effects (e. g. posttraumatic stress, depression, low self-esteem) and help reduce their vulnerability.
1/11/2017
Culture-based interventions can improve participants’ cultural knowledge and sense of identity, and promote positive attitude and behavioural changes. There is not enough evidence to determine the effectiveness of culture-based interventions in reducing re-offending.
1/02/2016
Correctional alcohol and drug treatment is effective at reducing offending and also has positive broader social outcomes.
1/02/2017
Mentoring is one of the most commonly used interventions to help youth engaged in, or thought to be at risk for, delinquent behaviour and other negative outcomes.
1/04/2016
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy reduces reoffending among many groups of offenders. There is great potential in extending this treatment to more young offenders. For every 5-15 offenders receiving treatment, one less will reoffend.
1/06/2017
High coverage CCTV is effective at reducing crime in car parks when used with other interventions such as improved light, notices about CCTV, painting, fencing, payment schemes and security.
1/09/2016
International evidence suggests that informal processing of young offenders can reduce reoffending in some cases. Informal processing includes approaches such as issuing warnings, Alternative Action or Family Group Conferences.
