Professional paper

Development of Crime Prevention Council in the Local Community Towards the Sustainable and Efficient Coalition

Krunoslav Borovec ; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper reviews the empirical materials that process community-based prevention and prevention coalitions as a respond of community to the growing problem of crime. Crime in general and conse-quences of crime, as fear of crime, affect the quality of life and therefore dealing with this problem can not be left only to law enforcement agencies but it is necessary to include all other factors of life in the community which can, acting together, successfully solve problems, and generators of crime. In Croatia 165 crime prevention councils was founded and the meaning of this paper is to emphasis key factors of the functioning and sustainability of these councils, as well as challenges of implementation of evidence-based crime prevention programs. Numerous researches in both segments, the segment of sustainable and effective coalitions and in the segment of implementation of evidence-based programs, provide enough evidence of effective practice, what should be the direction for development of Crime Prevention Council in Croatia towards becoming an effective coalitions.

Keywords

crime prevention; Crime Prevention Council; a coalition of community; sustainability of the coalition; the coalition effectiveness; implementation; evidence-based prevention programs

Hrčak ID:

105615

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105615

Publication date:

1.7.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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