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Title: | Local Crime Prevention: 'Breathing Life (Back) into Social Democratic and Penal Welfare Concerns'? | Contributor(s): | Clancey, Garner (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i4.198 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20509 | Abstract: | Fieldwork in the inner-Sydney postcode area of Glebe (New South Wales, Australia) sought to understand how local community workers conceptualise crime causation and the approaches adopted to prevent crime. Observation of more than 30 inter-agency meetings, 15 interviews and two focus groups with diverse local workers revealed that social-welfare or 'root' causes of crime were central to explanations of local crime. Numerous crime prevention measures in the area respond directly to these understandings of crime (a youth diversion program on Friday and Saturday evenings, an alternative education program, a police-youth exercise program, and so on). While other more surveillant forms of crime prevention were evident, the findings of this research suggest a significant social-welfare orientation to crime prevention. These findings echo Brown’s (2012) observations of the resilience of penal-welfarism in Australia. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 4(4), p. 40-57 | Publisher: | Queensland University of Technology, Crime and Justice Research Centre | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 2202-8005 2202-7998 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160201 Causes and Prevention of Crime | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440201 Causes and prevention of crime | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940402 Crime Prevention | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230402 Crime prevention | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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