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Towards a Criminology of the Domestic
Criminology has paid insufficient attention to the ‘domestic’ arena, as a locale that is being reconfigured through technological and social developments in ways that require us to reconsider offending and victimisation. This article addresses this lacuna. We take up Campbell's (2016) challenge that criminology needs to develop more sophisticated models of place and space, particularly in relation to changing patterns of consumption and leisure activity and the opportunities to offend in relation to these from within the domestic arena
Formal System Processing of Juveniles: Effects on Delinquency
Justice practitioners have tremendous discretion on how to handle juvenile
offenders. Police officers, district attorneys, juvenile court intake officers, juvenile
and family court judges, and other officials can decide whether the juvenile should
be “officially processed” by the juvenile justice system, diverted from the system to a
program, counseling or some other services, or to do nothing at all (release the
juvenile altogether). An important policy question is which strategy leads to the best
outcomes for juveniles. This is an important question in the United States, but many
other nations are concerned with the decision to formally process or divert juvenile
offenders. There have been a number of randomized experiments in the juvenile
courts that have examined the impact of juvenile system processing that should be
gathered together in a systematic fashion to provide rigorous evidence about the
impact of this decision on subsequent offending by juveniles. Our objective is to answer the question: Does juvenile system processing reduce
subsequent delinquency? Based on the evidence presented in this report, juvenile system processing appears
to not have a crime control effect, and across all measures appears to increase
delinquency. This was true across measures of prevalence, incidence, severity, and
self-report. Given the additional financial costs associated with system processing
(especially when compared to doing nothing) and the lack of evidence for any public
safety benefit, jurisdictions should review their policies regarding the handling of
juveniles
The effectiveness of neighborhood watch
Background: Neighborhood watch (also known as block watch, apartment watch, home watch and
community watch) grew out of a movement in the US during the late 1960s that promoted
greater involvement of citizens in the prevention of crime. Since then, interest in
neighborhood watch has grown considerably and recent estimates suggest that over a quarter
of the UK population and over forty per cent of the US population live in areas covered by
neighborhood watch schemes.
Objectives: The primary aim of this review is to assess the effectiveness of neighborhood watch in
reducing crime
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