Crime Prevention for Social Impact and Social Justice III

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Objectives: This is the third of three thematic panels that reports on major findings of a large-scale project designed to (a) provide a deeper and broader understanding of the connections of social impact and social justice to crime prevention and (b) 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 examines how reducing crime at places is also an opportunity to have a greater social impact and improve social justice. The second paper investigates if non-experimental studies can improve the policy relevance of crime prevention research, including a greater focus on social impact and social justice. With a special focus on cities, the third paper advances a conceptual framework on how police can prevent crime without producing unintended harms to urban communities. The fourth paper examines the role of community violence interventions in reducing intracommunity violence and different pathways for achieving social impact and increasing social justice.
Conclusions/implications: This panel engages new ideas in community- and place-based crime prevention research and practice to bring about social impact and social justice.

Sub Unit

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

Individual Presentations

• Reducing Opportunities for Crime at Places Can Improve Society and Its Social Institutions - Martin A. Andresen, Simon Fraser University; Tarah Hodgkinson, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Can Non-Experimental Studies Improve the Policy Relevance of Crime Prevention Research? Insights from Public Area Video Surveillance Interventions - Savannah Reid, Northeastern University; Eric Piza, Northeastern University; Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University / Harvard Medical School; John Patrick Moylan, Northeastern University

• Cities and Policing for Crime Prevention: Toward a New Urban Agenda - John M. MacDonald, University of Pennsylvania; Anthony A. Braga, University of Pennsylvania; Aaron Chalfin, University of Pennsylvania

• Community Violence Interventions as Mechanisms of Social Impact and Social Justice: Exploring a Framework for Theory, Practice, and Research - Jay Szkola, Community Violence Prevention Project; Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, Arizona State University

Chair

• Eric Piza, Northeastern University