Crime Prevention for Social Impact and Social Justice II

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Objectives: This is the second 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 through the lens of social impact and social justice.
Data/methods: The panel includes a mix of conceptual/review and empirical papers.
Results: The first paper, drawing on the “intersectionality-based policy analysis framework,” reviews research evidence of popular and lesser-known police-, court-, and corrections-based interventions to identify promising approaches to address the needs of diverse groups. The second paper reports on lessons from the Best Starts for Kids Prenatal to Five Innovation Fund, a promising initiative working toward equity-centered community impact. The third paper reviews long-term effects and economic benefits of early developmental crime prevention and examines how this work is bringing about and informing a knowledge base on the conditions needed to achieve social impact over the life-course. The fourth paper examines the social impact of school-based crime prevention within a social justice framework.
Conclusions/implications: The panel profiles emerging developments in different domains—individual, community, and school—to advance crime prevention for social impact and social justice.

Sub Unit

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

Individual Presentations

• Vulnerable Populations, Crime, and a Social Justice and Social Impact Agenda: Lessons for Crime Prevention - Victoria A. Sytsma, Queen's University

• Early Developmental Crime Prevention and Social Impact over the Life-Course - Heather Paterson, Northeastern University; Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University / Harvard Medical School; Michael Rocque, Bates College; David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge

• Assessing the Social Impact of School-Based Crime Prevention through a Social Justice Lens - Allison Ann Payne, Villanova University

Chair

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