Continued crime-proofing should be a part of any crime reduction efforts.
It will fail to curb the Assad regime's continuing crimes against humanity.
The law initially required colleges and universities to disclose crime statistics, explain security policies and to broadcast "timely warnings" about continuing crimes.
Shlaim concludes by criticising the award of Tel Aviv University's Dan David prize to Mr Blair, arguing it was "absurd, given Blair's silent complicity in Israel's continuing crimes against the Palestinian people".
But in recent years, especially since General Pinochet was detained in Britain in 1998, judges have ruled that it does not apply to "continuing crimes" like unsolved cases of forced disappearance.
"It is what I call a continuing crime".
In 1999 it declared "disappearances" to be a continuing crime until death is proved.
But New York City's continuing crime reduction appears to be a fact, not an interpretation.
Detractors say it is ineffective, turning up little criminal activity, and point to the continuing crime drop as proof.
As a continuing crime, at least theoretically, the 19 kidnappings cannot be covered by the Pinochet government's amnesty, the judge has contended for the last two years.
