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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. In Support of Innovative Partnerships for Crime Prevention: The Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program

Authors : Robert J. Stokes, Charlotte Gill

Published in: Innovations in Community-Based Crime Prevention

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter serves as the introduction to a set of cases that describe the planning, implementation, and assessment of a federally funded and locally administered crime prevention program: the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) program. The BCJI program emerged in 2012 as part of a suite of three federal programs known as the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative (NRI). This three-pronged initiative sought to link federal support to improvements in affordable housing crime prevention and a decrease in poverty through investments in education, training, and targeted incentives for private development in designated areas. While the BCJI program represented a new type of federal anti-crime program, it shares much in common with other programs that have come before it, many with similar theories as to the causes of crime, as well as a clear set of prescriptions toward its reduction and prevention. This chapter offers a description of the BCJI program; the history of federal efforts in support of local crime reduction; a concise review of the relevant theories that drive the programs’ preferred set of intervention points; and a summary of nine local case studies, followed by a final chapter that describes the technical assistance challenges in building locally informed, innovative, and comprehensive crime prevention programs.

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Footnotes
1
In St. Louis, civil unrest started in neighboring suburban Ferguson, MO, and was inflamed by the police shooting and subsequent legal processes surrounding the death of Michael Brown in 2014. In Baltimore, the death of Freddy Gray, which occurred in 2015 while Mr. Gray was in police custody, has led to a prolonged set of police-community problems for that city, while in Cleveland, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot in a city park while holding a BB gun in November of 2014 by a police officer responding to a radio call regarding a person with a gun.
 
2
Many cities around the country have added such an office over the past decade in an acknowledgement that policing services should not exist in a policy or operational silo from other crime and safety influencing public service areas, such as housing, zoning/code enforcement, sanitation, and recreation. While these offices have proliferated, their influence over policing practices, as evidenced in the Baltimore case, has remained a work in progress.
 
3
Tucson received the DOJ funding under the new program articulation and name, the Innovations in Community Based Crime Reduction program, or CBCR. For the sake of consistency, it is referred to as BCJI here as this program emerged directly from the BCJI program.
 
4
05 is a reference to the last two digits of the area’s zip code (85705).
 
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Metadata
Title
In Support of Innovative Partnerships for Crime Prevention: The Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program
Authors
Robert J. Stokes
Charlotte Gill
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Innovations in Community-Based Crime Prevention

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-43634-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-43635-3

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43635-3_1

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