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…
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