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Each and every second  cases of crimes are being reported, we can't let this conquers us! In order we need to to terminate this by standing together and raise our voice to be heard. It's easy to break one stick plenty of them is impossible

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Crime in our country had become a norm and it’s sad that our government is so ignorant about it and people who commit crime still get away with it. This country have no Justice even the people who are meant to protect us are the ones taking advantage of us! This country is corrupted

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URBAN WIRE

Five ways to reduce crime

Shebani Rao, Nancy G. La Vigne

Display Date
May 7, 2013

Recently, The Washington Post’s Wonkblog published a list of research-backed strategies to combat crime. We at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center propose five additional evidence-based strategies based on our own research:

1. Use and expand drug courts. Drug courts, which combine judicial supervision with substance abuse treatment, are rapidly gaining popularity as a tool to combat crime and drug use. Based on a five-year study, we found that people who took part in drug courts had lower relapse rates and committed fewer additional crimes, such as selling drugs and driving while intoxicated. Forty-nine percent of drug court participants reported committing new crimes, compared with 64 percent of non-participants.

2. Make use of DNA evidence. By vastly improving our ability to identify and arrest suspects, DNA evidence has the potential to be a powerful crime-fighting resource. Our research shows that the use of DNA evidence in burglary cases leads to the identification and arrest of twice as many suspects as traditional investigation tactics. DNA also helps serve justice: we found that DNA testing can provide evidence to support the exoneration of as many as 15 percent of convicted sex offenders.

3. Help ex-offenders find secure living-wage employment. Securing a well-paying job can help returning prisoners remain crime-free once they go back to their communities. Our studies found that the more they earned during the first two months following their release, the lower their chances of returning to prison. Those who earned over $10 an hour, for example, were half as likely to return to prison as those whose hourly wages were less than $7.

4. Monitor public surveillance cameras. The recent events in Boston have demonstrated the crucial role public cameras can play in investigations of high-profile criminal acts. Our research found that cameras can also be a cost-effective means of preventing crime. In Chicago, every dollar spent on cameras yielded over $4 in savings in court costs, incarceration, and pain and suffering associated with prevented crimes. Cameras are most effective when there are a sufficient number of them and they are monitored by trained staff.

5. Connect returning prisoners to stable housing. Access to stable housing can dramatically reduce crime committed by former prisoners. Our evaluation of the Returning Home-Ohio (RHO) program found that released prisoners who were connected to housing services were 60 percent less likely to return to prison. These individuals also spent more time in the community before being re-arrested.

Some of these strategies, like drug courts and public surveillance cameras, are in widespread usage and have already helped reduce crime. Others have not yet been widely implemented. However, empirical evidence shows that they all effectively lower crime and reduce the costs associated with it.

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The most significant role can be played is to strengthen the criminal Justice sytstem ,such as the death sentence ,this can be done only if there could be proffentional police service that is reliable to it's communities. And also build community participation in community safety .In that way we can live in a better and safe society.

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The four pillar approach to crime prevention - a strategic frameworkThe government has adopted the four pillar approach as a model which sets out the different areas in which crime prevention should be developed. This model is intended to provide a basis for the development of crime prevention initiatives at provincial and municipal levels, as well as through civil society initiatives.Framework for the National Crime Prevention StrategyCriminal Justice Process=Certain and Rapid Deterrence	Community Values and Education = Community pressure and public participation in crime prevention	Environmental Design = Limit Opportunities and Maximise Constraints	Transnational Crime = Regional co-operation, stability and address cross-border crimeCrime LevelsPillar 1: The Criminal Justice Process aims to make the criminal justice system more efficient and effective. It must provide a sure and clear deterrent for criminals and reduce the risks of re-offending.Pillar 2: Reducing Crime through Environmental Design focuses on designing systems to reduce the opportunity for crime and increase the ease of detection and identification of criminals.Pillar 3: Public Values and Education concern initiatives aimed at changing the way communities react to crime and violence. It involves programmes which utilise public education and information in facilitating meaningful citizen participation in crime prevention.Pillar 4: Trans-national crime programmes aim at improving the controls over cross border traffic related to crime and reducing the refuge which the region offenders to international criminal syndicates.

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The four pillar approach to crime prevention - a strategic frameworkThe government has adopted the four pillar approach as a model which sets out the different areas in which crime prevention should be developed. This model is intended to provide a basis for the development of crime prevention initiatives at provincial and municipal levels, as well as through civil society initiatives.Framework for the National Crime Prevention StrategyCriminal Justice Process=Certain and Rapid Deterrence	Community Values and Education = Community pressure and public participation in crime prevention	Environmental Design = Limit Opportunities and Maximise Constraints	Transnational Crime = Regional co-operation, stability and address cross-border crimeCrime LevelsPillar 1: The Criminal Justice Process aims to make the criminal justice system more efficient and effective. It must provide a sure and clear deterrent for criminals and reduce the risks of re-offending.Pillar 2: Reducing Crime through Environmental Design focuses on designing systems to reduce the opportunity for crime and increase the ease of detection and identification of criminals.Pillar 3: Public Values and Education concern initiatives aimed at changing the way communities react to crime and violence. It involves programmes which utilise public education and information in facilitating meaningful citizen participation in crime prevention.Pillar 4: Trans-national crime programmes aim at improving the controls over cross border traffic related to crime and reducing the refuge which the region offenders to international criminal syndicates.

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The four pillar approach to crime prevention - a strategic frameworkThe government has adopted the four pillar approach as a model which sets out the different areas in which crime prevention should be developed. This model is intended to provide a basis for the development of crime prevention initiatives at provincial and municipal levels, as well as through civil society initiatives.Framework for the National Crime Prevention StrategyCriminal Justice Process=Certain and Rapid Deterrence	Community Values and Education = Community pressure and public participation in crime prevention	Environmental Design = Limit Opportunities and Maximise Constraints	Transnational Crime = Regional co-operation, stability and address cross-border crimeCrime LevelsPillar 1: The Criminal Justice Process aims to make the criminal justice system more efficient and effective. It must provide a sure and clear deterrent for criminals and reduce the risks of re-offending.Pillar 2: Reducing Crime through Environmental Design focuses on designing systems to reduce the opportunity for crime and increase the ease of detection and identification of criminals.Pillar 3: Public Values and Education concern initiatives aimed at changing the way communities react to crime and violence. It involves programmes which utilise public education and information in facilitating meaningful citizen participation in crime prevention.Pillar 4: Trans-national crime programmes aim at improving the controls over cross border traffic related to crime and reducing the refuge which the region offenders to international criminal syndicates.

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The four pillar approach to crime prevention - a strategic frameworkThe government has adopted the four pillar approach as a model which sets out the different areas in which crime prevention should be developed. This model is intended to provide a basis for the development of crime prevention initiatives at provincial and municipal levels, as well as through civil society initiatives.Framework for the National Crime Prevention StrategyCriminal Justice Process=Certain and Rapid Deterrence	Community Values and Education = Community pressure and public participation in crime prevention	Environmental Design = Limit Opportunities and Maximise Constraints	Transnational Crime = Regional co-operation, stability and address cross-border crimeCrime LevelsPillar 1: The Criminal Justice Process aims to make the criminal justice system more efficient and effective. It must provide a sure and clear deterrent for criminals and reduce the risks of re-offending.Pillar 2: Reducing Crime through Environmental Design focuses on designing systems to reduce the opportunity for crime and increase the ease of detection and identification of criminals.Pillar 3: Public Values and Education concern initiatives aimed at changing the way communities react to crime and violence. It involves programmes which utilise public education and information in facilitating meaningful citizen participation in crime prevention.Pillar 4: Trans-national crime programmes aim at improving the controls over cross border traffic related to crime and reducing the refuge which the region offenders to international criminal syndicates.

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Crime can be prevented if only the civilians unite and work with the police in ending crime in our areas. Reason is that we as civilians know and live with these crime doers but some are scared to give out information to the police, some benefit from the gainings of these crimes causing crime rate to rise. If civilians could report even anonymously to the police I believe crime rate in that particular place could decrease.

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Crime needs to be reduced in South Africa. But how when our own justice system is failing us?... That's why black communities take crime cases on their hands, I don't blame them.Because there is something wrong with our own justice system that needs to be dealt with.

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Crime in South Africa is like child's play. Many people in South Africa involves themselves in crime and most of them know that since we have a week justice system some of the crimes they commit wont be attended to. We also have officials who commit crime , people who are rich also commit crime or they are rich because of committing crime and they don't care who gets affected in a bad way what they care about is the fact that they have done they crime successfully and that they won't have any trace that will follow thwm.

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This country needs to bring back the death penalty in order to reduce the crime rate the reason I’m saying so is because I feel like our people need to be shown that in every single thing you do there gets to be consequences and one must face his/her actions consequences in that way they will think twice before doing wrong because I believe we are all afraid of death.

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Many crimes that ocure in our community are mostly people we know. Now as hard it may as a community we need to put an end to that, we need to take a stand and end crime ourselves and make our communities a safe place. Community members need to intervene and take full responsibility and not hide and protect perpetrators. eg.. The community of Langa has a community forum that is structured to fight and prevent crime and it is 100% successful you can find about them in their page on Facebook. Now that is taking full responsibility and protection of the community they live in, they don't depend on the police to fight crime but they fight it themselves.

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High rate of crime is caused by poverty, we very poor in this country and that is caused by high unemployment rate.

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There must be no judge that has a price or that can be bribed by the accused , the police officers should stop taking bribes and act accordingly with their oaths

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The thing is our government is also full of criminals every year there is a story of corruption so that's why crime rate is high because even the officials are doing crime so they are not setting any example for us to follow.

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Sometimes there's a good crime committed in oder to make the world a better place u sometimes have to do the bad things to achieve good ones

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Crime exist every where in South Africa and the South African police service try by all means to reduce it .If the government can try to reduce unemployment and create jobs for South African citizens atleast crime will be reduced because poverty leads to crime . Then there is corruption that exist even in government departments and that is why there is a huge rate or poverty and as i said poverty leads to crime.

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Crime is an illegal act for which a citizen can be punished by government. We can stop and prevent crime by firstly educating young individuals about Law and consequences that a person will have to tolerate if one does an illegal act and go against the law. Exposing youth to Law will infirm them to practice Law other than breaking the Law.  We can also stop crime in our societies by reporting any crime or suspicious activity. The community must focus on strategies to prevent crime. The community must note what causes crime to occur in their area and engage and talk together how can they approach the problem.

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Based on my own suggestions I think the government needs to open job opportunities for people, so that they earn something at the end of the day. The marn resion why I'm saying that it's because people are steeling people's stuff and robbing because they want to provide for their families, and it doesn't matter if they commit crime or not

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Crime is an action which brakes the formal law of a society. The are so many reasons why crime is more dominant in informal settlement. One of those reasons is unemployment, people tend to do anything that will help to bring food in the table because they don't have employment. The second dominant reason is "DRUGS". They influence ones mind where he tends to do unlawfully acts unaware. An example is 🤬 , 🤬 is a very sensitive crime especially to a victim. It abuses the victim emotionally, physically, mentally, and also spiritually. That's why crime needs to stop, but how ?... comment your idea on how we can help to stop crime

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I think crime could stop if all the people who sell drugs could be reported to the police and get arrested for that. If girls could be taught more and part take in birth control could lead to less crime. I am saying this because the more the population grows the more the crime accelerates because there will be few jobs to accommodate everyone. Scarcity of jobs leads to poverty and poverty sometimes leads to crime. We should also show love to one another because a majority of criminals lack love from home and end up in the streets hopeless then they start to make the life of others miserable.

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Crime in these days is regarded as a fashion since the crime is every where. According to me i do not think we ca be able to stop crime, because those who are educated are those who are addicted in crime, since they know everything and i would like to say it can be better if our government can allow  the dead penalty.

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Crime in SA increases every. Year and I feel like our government has ran out of ideas  on how to decrease the rate of crime in SA... 

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Crime in SA increases every. Year and I feel like our government has ran out of ideas  on how to decrease the rate of crime in SA... 

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educate people to start their own businesses that will create employment .