2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction: A Comprehensive Model for Preventing Crime
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Combating crime and preventing crime are two sides of the same coin: preventing criminal acts occurring or preventing them from occurring again. Nonetheless, people commonly think of prevention as primarily being about “soft” measures aimed principally at children and young people, while “real” crime fighting involves collecting intelligence, making arrests, investigating and punishing after criminal acts have been committed. This is a narrow, old-fashioned and not particularly productive approach.