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Event 1
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Public Safety & Crime
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Friday, February 4, 2005
1–3pm (lectures), 3–4 pm (public reception)
Vivian & David Campbell Conference Facility
Munk Centre for International Studies
Description:
An examination of the different ways of understanding the nature
and origins of crime as well as the possible theoretical and practical
responses to it.
Featuring:
“Understanding the Prevention
of Crime”
Prof.
Anthony N. Doob (Centre for Criminology,
University of Toronto)
There is no shortage of suggestions of “solutions” to
crime problems. The challenge is not so much to identify what
we might do, but rather to choose among the various proposals
that are made on how to prevent crime. As a community, we tend
to focus on crime prevention only after tragic violent crimes,
or after a series of unusual serious crimes that have occurred
in close proximity to one another in time and space. Furthermore,
we tend to isolate “crime” as a problem rather than
seeing it as related to other aspects of our society. Typically
we turn to the criminal justice system to prevent crime rather
than considering carefully why crimes occur. I will attempt to
provide a framework for how we might, as a community, think about
the allocation of scarce resources to address the problems of
crime.
last reviewed
November 12, 2005
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