Community Organizations and Crime

Bibliographic Data

ID9747601
AuthorsSUSAN F BENNETT (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume539
Issue1
Pages72-84
Publication date1995-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716295539001006
OpenAlexW2119891300
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited19

Although not a panacea, community organizations have particular strengths that they bring to crime prevention: generating and sustaining participation, generating a broader understanding of community crime, developing programs that address broader social causes of crime, and forming partnerships for community policing. Questions about the efficacy of community-based crime prevention programs may be due to several limitations of prior evaluations. First they fail to acknowledge the fluid and political planning process of community organizations, which results in changing goals and objectives. Second, the need of community organizations to balance the production of outcomes and the process of developing activists makes it difficult to assess their accomplishments. Third, the emphasis on outcomes forces organizations to shorten the necessary social learning process, undermissing the programs' effectiveness. Finally, the evaluations' conceptual model ignores the political and institutional dimensions of communities and assumes only one means of producing safe communities

Business · Community organization · Community policing · Crime prevention · Criminology · Panacea (medicine · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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