LR tackling of crime

👮‍♀ing and control - Kinsey, Lea & Young (1986)

• 👮‍♀️ “clear-up” rates too low to effectively deter crime

• Spend too little time investigating

• Solution: involve public in determination of priorities and style of 👮‍♀ing

👮‍♀️ and the public

• 👮‍♀ rely on the public to provide information

• Now losing public support, especially from inner city dwellers, EM and young people

% of 👮‍♀️ info that comes from the public

90

Military policing - vicious circle

• Less flow of info from public → more reliance on military policing (like stop and search) → more alienation → less public trust in 👮‍♀ → less flow of info from public

5 practical solutions to current issues with policing

1. Make 👮‍♀ accountable to local communities

2. Involve public in policy

3. Multi-agency approach:

   • Combine voluntary organisations with social services, housing and schools

4. Change priorities:

   • Minor drug crime → DV, hate crime

5. Spend more time investigating

Structural causes and crime

• Need to reduce structural causes to effectively reduce crime

• Structural causes:

  • Inequality of opportunity

  • Discrimination

• Ideal world:

  • Tolerant of diversity

  • Close-knit communities

3 govt policy changes that relate to crime - New Labour 🔴

1. “New Deal” for unemployed youth

2. ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders)

3. Policing of hate crimes and SA

3 CRITICISMS of NL policy - Young

1. Failed attempt to recreate the 'Golden Age’ of the 1950s

2. Only addressed symptoms of crime, not the underlying causes

3. ASBOs and the New Deal didn’t work

3 focuses for different areas of govt - local

1. Bar and club crime hotspots

2. Shop crime hotspots

3. Road crime hotspots

2 focuses for different areas of govt - national

1. Online cybercrime through legislation relating to social media

2. Large businesses