Addressing the Enforcement Gap to Counter Crime : Part 1. Crime, Poverty and the Police
Crime and violence impede development and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries across the world. Though crime and violence represent serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries experience particular concentrations...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26294381/addressing-enforcement-gap-counter-crime-investing-public-safety-rule-law-local-development-poor-neighborhoods-part-1-crime-poverty-police http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24416 |
| Summary: | Crime and violence impede development
and disproportionally impact poor people in many countries
across the world. Though crime and violence represent
serious problems in many countries, less-developed countries
experience particular concentrations, especially those that
are characterized by fragile or less-trusted government
institutions and pervasive insecurity. Under such
circumstances, human, social, political, and economic
development suffers. Research across the globe has shown
that holistic approaches that focus on the entire spectrum
of a government's crime response chain, ranging from
crime prevention to enforcement, tend to have better
outcomes than isolated interventions involving only the
police or other individual government agency. To date, most
of the Bank's investment in efforts to reduce crime
have focused on crime prevention in the form of urban and
social development programs. Investment and policy lending
that support the improvement of police operations to reduce
crime and develop stronger neighborhoods are more limited.
To assist country teams and client counterparts in their
efforts to develop effective, holistic responses against
crime that include the police, justice reform staff in the
Governance Global Practice teamed up with internationally
recognized experts to compile evidence-based good practice
information for developing effective police responses to
crime. The resulting three part publication, titled
Addressing the Enforcement Gap to Counter Crime: Investing
in Public Safety, the Rule of Law and Local Development in
Poor Neighborhoods outlines the impact of crime and violence
on development and the poor in particular and explains a
proven three-pronged approach to creating police agencies
that work in collaboration with communities and other
government and private service providers to identify crime
problems, develop holistic and inclusive solutions the apply
a restorative justice approach. The publication also
outlines how such approach can be integrated into Bank
projects and client country reform plans. |
|---|