Sentence examples for crime prevention efforts from inspiring English sources

The Police Department, its commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, and the Bloomberg administration have repeatedly argued that the practice has been effective at preventing crime and saving lives, and that crime prevention efforts particularly benefit minorities, because a vast majority of shooting and murder victims are members of minorities.

It also implies that successful situational crime prevention efforts must disproportionately affect these high-frequency offenders.

The results provide both theoretical and practical implications for several theories of crime and crime prevention efforts.

Displacement refers to the potential for crime to move (partially) in some circumstances, in response to crime prevention efforts.

Finally, situational crime prevention efforts are aimed at changing offenders' perceptions about the risks and rewards of crime opportunities (Clarke 1997).

From a practical point of view, this is encouraging, since networks (the properties of which are quantifiable) represent another means by which crime prevention efforts can be concentrated.

The concentration of crime prevention effort and resources should be directed at those already victimised.

Bear in mind that the present analysis says nothing directly about area effects, which will also inform prioritisation of crime prevention effort (Tseloni 2006; Kershaw and Tseloni 2005; Osborn and Tseloni 1998) (Table 1).

Their study shows that the concept of repeat victimization may be as useful as that of hot spots in helping to focus crime prevention effort where it is most needed.

The move to increase funding and reach of e-crime prevention efforts has been praised by security professionals.

The current project is similar to Mr. Hynes's other crime-prevention efforts in that the women who qualify will not go to prison at all.