Enhancing Citizen Participation for Solving Serious Crime The Presentation Includes

The need of involving communities in crime controlling activities

The stake of community

The approach of the crime stoppers

Greg MacAlesse, 1976

Enhancing Citizen Participation and Solving Serious Crime: A National Evaluation of Crime Stoppers

National Evaluation 1984

The research work

THE NEED OF INVOLVING COMMUNITIES IN CRIME CONTROLLING ACTIVITIES

Communities form a major portion of the society, the fact can therefore not be neglected that with the active involvement of communities in crime controlling menace can yield to the results that the law enforcing agencies can not achieve alone

THE STAKE OF COMMUNITY

The different communities living and working together form societies, and therefore have a greater stake

So with the increasing number of crimes the it is the human community that is affected the most.

THE APPROACH OF THE CRIME STOPPERS

One such movement that has come about and has been incredibly successful in countering the effect of crime has been Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers today is not only popular within America, but its model...

This then has been the launching pad of Crime Stoppers movement which has become increasingly popular since the 1976
ENHANCING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND SOLVING SERIOUS CRIME: A NATIONAL EVALUATION OF CRIME STOPPERS

"Enhancing Citizen Participation and Solving Serious Crime: A National Evaluation of Crime Stoppers," it is made clear that the major impact on any investigation is made by through community initiated contacts, instead of police initiated contacts, and it is in few cases that police or detectives can get the lead from the community that is needed in solving a crime. This is further made clear and evident by the look at the numbers, which show that only 1 of 5 felony crimes are resolved through police initiate contacts.

NATIONAL EVALUATION 1984

There has only been…