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Context Matters in Crime Prevention
Anna Stewart
Head, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the
land on which we are meeting and pay my respect to the
Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the
land on which we are meeting and pay my respect to the
Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Context Matters in Crime Prevention
Anna Stewart
Head, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Over representation of Indigenous young people in detention
Not gong to list the statistics
Not going to talk about high rates of remand
Not going to talk about breaches of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Talk about crime prevention
What works, for whom and in what
circumstances?
Community (context) is key
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Colonisation
Dispossession Imprisonment
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Colonisation
Dispossession
Offending
(and victimisation)
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Colonisation
Dispossession
Offending
(and victimisation)
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Colonisation
Dispossession
Offending
(and victimisation)
Imprisonment
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Criminal Justice System
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Offending (and
victimisation)
Criminal Justice System
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Offending (and
victimisation)
Criminal Justice System
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Offending (and
victimisation)
Criminal Justice System
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Offending (and
victimisation)
Criminal Justice System
Imprisonment
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Offending (and
victimisation)
Criminal Justice System
Imprisonment
Key to reducing the overrepresentation of Indigenous
young people in detention is to reduce offending (and
victimisation).
How?
How do we know these work?
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Evidence based interventions
How do we know what works?
Context dependent
How do we know for who this works?
How do we know under what circumstances it
works?
Theory based
How do we know why it works?
How do we know these work?
Crime Prevention and Communities: 3-4 Nov 2016
Evidence based interventions
How do we know what works?
Context dependent
How do we know for who this works?
How do we know under what circumstances it
works?
Theory based
How do we know why it works?
Two effective crime prevention frameworks
Situational crime prevention
Target crime opportunities rather than individuals
Crime Science
Developmental and life course criminology
Onset, persistence and desistance of offending
Target risk and protective factors
Importance of systems – family, school, community, economic and political
Early intervention
Therapeutic intervention
What works to prevent youth offending?
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Situational crime prevention
Tailored to the situation (problem identification)
Increase the effort – opal fuel
Increase the risk – school designs, RBT
Reduce the rewards – car immobilizers
Remove provocations – reduce boredom
Remove excuses – control drugs and
alcohol
What works to prevent youth offending?
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Developmental and life course interventions
Intervene along the life course
Risk factors for offending
Parental incarceration
Child maltreatment
Homelessness
Alcohol and substance abuse
Protective factors
School attendance, performance and
retention
Employment
Give every child the best start
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Early childhood development key to health and well
being
Prevent offending (and child maltreatment, youth
suicide, mental health, academic failure)
Before birth
Before problems emerge
Life transitions
Interventions
Pre and postnatal home visits
Early family/parent programs
Preschool education
Boyer lectures – Michael Marmot
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Fair Australia – Social Justice and the Health Gap
“Social determinants of health: the conditions in
which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
And, I must add, inequities in power, money and
resources that give rise to inequities in the
conditions of daily life.”
“The link between deprivation of social conditions, ill
health and crime is all too obvious in Australia”
Preventing reoffending?
Interventions informed by theory and empirical research
Matched to offenders risk of reoffending, needs and responsivity
Interventions adopting a holistic approach to target multiple and extensive
needs
Delivered in community rather than institutional settings
Involving significant others including the family and community;
Culturally appropriate
Ensure program fidelity
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What works to prevent reoffending?
Family based interventions
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Multi-modular interventions (case management, multisystemic)
Counseling and Mentoring programs (CBT Social Skills)
Wilderness programs (paired with therapeutic interventions)
Vocational, Education and Training (VET) programs
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What doesn’t work?
Preventing reoffending
Imprisonment and detention
Zero tolerance policies
Boot campus
Shock incarceration (scared straight)
Naming and shaming
Juvenile curfews
Systemic Barriers to effective crime prevention
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Punitive rather than rehabilitative
Reactive rather than proactive
Inadequate funding
Shortage of qualified and experienced
staff (high staff turnover)
Delivered on ad hoc basis and not
appropriately evaluated
Remote discrete communities
Community is everything
Covered what works, and why: but the key is under what
circumstances?
The context of the intervention is extremely important
understand the historical and cultural context to implement programs
understand the opportunity structure around crime
work with communities to implement effective interventions
Can’t just pick up a program/intervention that works in one place and
expect it to work in another place
Two additional points
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Justice reinvestment
Reducing children on remand – bail
programs.
Final words – reducing overrepresentation
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No ‘simple’ answer
No ‘one’ answer
No ‘immediate’ answer
No ‘magic bullet’
But there are good initiatives being implemented
Need to focus outside the criminal justice system
Need to prevent victimisation
Need to build the evidence base
Need to understand the context
Context Matters in Crime Prevention
Anna Stewart
Head, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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