Crime prevention in Australia: beyond 'what works?'.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, April, 2007 by Cherney, Adrian; Sutton, Adam
Recent decades have seen governments around Australia launch crime prevention policies to much fanfare. Often, however, achievements have fallen well short of expectations. A key problem is that too many attempts to develop and implement crime prevention have not thought through and articulated what relevant strategies might signify and hope to achieve.
In the absence of a basic understanding of, and agreement about, the overall enterprise in which central and local players are engaged, program sustainability and drift problems prevail. Attempts to overcome these difficulties simply ...
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