Models for Improving Community Safety for Economic and Social Development: World Bank Strategies and Partnerships

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Violence and crime in the developing world have broad implications for public safety, local justice and community development. Millions of people across the world are impacted by violence and crime. The negative impact of crime on economic development and other development outcomes has been well documented for many years. Many countries and especially cities, not just in the developing world, continue to struggle with increasing crime problems and how to best address them. Several teams at the World Bank, supported by expert consultants, have been working for several years now on expanding the knowledge base to inform policy makers, justice sector agency heads and impacted communities about promising approaches to effective crime prevention and enforcement. This panel will present some of the work that has been conducted by World Bank staff and consultants, including research on crime, poverty and the enforcement gap, studies of effective crime prevention and enforcement efforts in cities in the US, Latin America and Europe, and the collection of empirical evidence to better understand the impact of crime on neighborhoods. The man goal for this combined body of work is to inform policy decisions and investments to reduce crime and violence in communities in different countries.

Sub Unit

• Area VII: Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 40: Crime Prevention

Chair

• Heike Gramckow, The World Bank

Individual Presentations

• Components of Effective Crime Enforcement and Prevention - Jack R. Greene, Northeastern University; Heike Gramckow, The World Bank

• Effective Crime Prevention and Enforcement Programs in Cities - Ineke Haen Marshall, Northeastern University

• Programming for Crime Prevention in Latin America - Joan Serra Hoffmann, The World Bank; Andres Villaveces, The World Bank

Discussant

• Ineke Haen Marshall, Northeastern University