Review what evaluations show are some of the kinds of crime reduction and prevention activities that seem to work, do not work, or have promise
What will be an ideal response?
What Prevents or Reduces Crime
• Providing extra police patrols in high-crime hot spots
• Monitoring known high-risk repeat offenders to reduce their time on the streets and returning them to prison quickly
• Arresting employed domestic abusers to reduce repeated abuse by these suspects
• Offering rehabilitation programs for juvenile and adult offenders that are appropriate to their risk factors to reduce their rates of repeat offending
• Offering drug treatment programs to prison inmates to reduce repeat offending after their release
What Does Not Appear to Be Successful
• Gun buyback programs failed to reduce gun violence in cities.
• Neighborhood Watch programs failed to reduce burglary or other target crimes, especially in higher-crime areas where voluntary participation often fails.
• Arrests of unemployed suspects for domestic assault caused higher rates of repeat offending over the long term than non-arrest alternatives.
• Increased arrests or raids on drug markets failed to reduce violent crime or disorder for more than a few days, if at all.
• Storefront police offices failed to prevent crime in the surrounding areas.
• Police newsletters with local crime information failed to reduce victimization rates.
• Correctional boot camps using traditional military training failed to reduce repeat offending for both juveniles and adults.
• "Scared Straight" programs that bring minor juvenile offenders to visit maximum-security prisons failed to reduce participants' reoffending rates and may increase crime.
• Intensive supervision, shock probation, shock parole, and split sentences, and home detention with electronic monitoring for low-risk offenders did not reduce repeat offending.
What Holds Promise
• Problem-solving analysis is effective when addressed to the specific crime situation.
• Proactive arrests for carrying concealed weapons in gun crime hot spots
• Community policing with meetings to set priorities reduced community perceptions of the severity of crime problems.
• Field interrogations of suspicious persons reduced crime in a San Diego experiment.
• Gang offender monitoring by community workers and probation and police officers can reduce gang violence.
• Community-based mentoring by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America substantially reduced drug abuse in one experiment.
• Battered women's shelters were found to reduce at least the short-term (six-week) rate of repeat victimization for women who take other steps to seek hel
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