Tagged Prevention

Prevention: less crime, less costs, more public confidence

What prevention really means EMPAC’s Professor John Coxhead presented at the national Public Policy Exchange Conference on the 15th October (https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?eventUID=OJ15-PPE) reporting on the key research that shows prevention works better than reaction. Given budgetary pressures on all public services, including policing, different ways of doing things is now an…

Home Office publishes Modern Crime Prevention Strategy

The Home Office has published it Modern Crime Prevention Strategy document, setting out an agenda for tackling the key drivers of crime in the UK. The strategy document looks at what the current evidence-base is saying in relation to the six key drivers of crime that have been identified: opportunity, character,…