What Can the Federal Government Do to Decrease Crime and Revitalize Communities

By Robinson, Laurie

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Title:	What Can the Federal Government Do to Decrease Crime and Revitalize Communities
Author:	Robinson, Laurie
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Excerpt: A Message From the Assistant Attorney General. ?What can the Federal Government do to decrease crime and revitalize communities?? This is a question to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have debated for more than 30 years. Over the past few years, the Justice Department?s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has brought together former administrators of OJP and its predecessor agencies and a broad range of other criminal justice experts to examine Federal criminal justice assistance over the past three decades and what lessons this experience holds as we move to shape criminal justice policy for the future. In January 1998, OJP posed this question to a group of practitioners and researchers at a symposium sponsored by two OJP components?the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). This session brought together those who are thinking and writing about crime from a practice or research perspective. It was a result of ongoing collaboration between NIJ, our research agency, and Weed and Seed, one of the Department?s premiere community-based initiatives. It marked the first time these two OJP components have come together to focus on the issue of crime and its impact on communities, and I commend EOWS Director Stephen Rickman and NIJ Director Jeremy Travis for their vision and energy in designing this symposium.

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Contents Introduction Jeremy Travis and Stephen Rickman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Panel One: The Context The Context Bailus Walker, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Economic Shifts That Will Impact Crime Control and Community Revitalization Cicero Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Context of Recent Changes in Crime Rates Alfred Blumstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Luncheon Speaker Community Watch Amitai Etzioni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Panel Two: The Roles of Federal, State, and Local Governments and Communities in Revitalizing Neighborhoods and in Addressing Local Public Safety Problems Revitalizing Communities and Reducing Crime Robert L. Woodson, Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Cooling the Hot Spots of Homicide: A Plan for Action Lawrence W. Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Communities and Crime: Reflections on Strategies for Crime Control Jack R. Greene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Panel Three: Promising Programs and Approaches Crime Prevention as Crime Deterrence David Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Revitalizing Communities: Public Health Strategies for Violence Prevention Deborah Prothrow-Stith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59