Crime Prevention for Social Impact and Social Justice I

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Objectives: This is the first of three thematic panels that reports on major findings of a large-scale project to provide a deeper and broader understanding of the connections of social impact and social justice to crime prevention and examine the state of crime prevention research and policy.
Data/methods: The panel includes a mix of conceptual/review and empirical papers.
Results: The first paper discusses the larger project, covering the ideals, challenges, and progress of crime prevention for social impact and social justice. The second paper presents several strategies that center racial equity and social impact as part of a new framework for crime prevention. The third paper revisits an important study on the allocation of resources among prisons and social crime prevention programs to reduce crime rates in the U.S., and it examines new evidence to assess if the U.S. is achieving the appropriate allocation. Drawing on results of an evaluation of a place-based, school-community partnership, the fourth paper examines the role of the community in crime prevention beyond the police.
Conclusions/implications: The panel draws attention to conceptual and empirical elements that are needed to help achieve social impact and social justice in a new era of crime prevention.

Sub Unit

• Area VII. Non-Criminal Justice Responses to Crime & Delinquency / 58. Community Responses

Individual Presentations

• Crime Prevention for Social Impact and Social Justice - Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University / Harvard Medical School; Eric Piza, Northeastern University

• Making Social Justice Non-Negotiable in Crime Prevention Policy and Practice - Nancy Rodriguez, University of California, Irvine

• Allocating Resources among Prisons and Social Crime Prevention Programs: A New Look at the Evidence - John J. Donohue, Stanford University Law School / National Bureau of Economic Research; Peter Siegelman, University of Connecticut School of Law

• Beyond the Police: Community Partnerships for Meaningful Crime Prevention and Social Justice - Charlotte Gill, George Mason University; David Weisburd, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chair

• Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University / Harvard Medical School