From a trickle to a potential torrent

Crime and Crime Prevention as Cascade Phenomena

Bibliographic Data

ID6193365
AuthorsJay P Kennedy (0000-0003-2916-0393, Michigan State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume44
Issue3
Pages189-199
Publication date2020-07-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-4036 • E-ISSN: 2157-6475
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01924036.2020.1737954
OpenAlexW3021579722
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited26

This article reviews Braithwaite’s recent work Crime as a Cascade Phenomenon and offers insights into its potential to transform criminological theory and practice. In his article Braithwaite argues that the cascade phenomenon is useful to understanding the spread of crime prevention interventions across time and space. The cascade concept is used as a framework to discuss the macro-level factors that affect action and inaction at the community level. Through an incorporation of self-efficacy and collective efficacy within the cascade framework Braithwaite argues that individuals and communities are the mediums through which crime and crime prevention flow. These mediums are also important factors in the sustenance and proliferation of crime prevention cascades, particularly when those cascades include elements of reintegrative approaches to the destigmatisation of criminal histories. Cascades of crime prevention and non-violence reach their greatest potential when collective efficacy is used to create socially positive rather than exclusionary practices

Collective action · Crime prevention · Criminology · Cultural Criminology · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Sustenance · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology

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