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Communities And Crime Prevention

This chapter aims to review the existing scientific evidence on the effectiveness of community-based programs to prevent crime. The three programs I am going to look and discuss are community mobilization, after-school recreation, and the removal of criminogenic commodities (specifically gun buy-back programs).
First, let’s take a look at community mobilization. The definition of community mobilization is greatly varied, “from the creation of formal community development organizations to the mobilizations of resources from outside the community to help solve local problems like crime and unemployment.” There are four community mobilization programs meeting the criteria for inclusion in the book review. They all took place in high-crime areas. The first one was done by Bibb in 1967 in New York and it includes detached workers, individual and family services, job training, and education. The duration of this type of intervention and the sample size is not applicable in this......


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