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New Website: Frameworks for crime prevention, security and community safety

This website presents, in one place, the complete set of Crime Frameworks, including 5Is and the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity, that he has developed (and continues to develop) during his career in research, evaluation, action projects and design.

The Crime Frameworks https://crimeframeworks.com have been developed from a career of experience in researching, evaluating, co-designing and implementing crime prevention, security and community safety action. The frameworks centre on analysis of causes and risk factors, and generation and application of interventions derived from tested theoretical principles. They support and complement an evidence-based approach, combined with a strong orientation towards theory and sharp conceptual analysis. They offer an advanced, integrated approach intended to handle the messy complexity of real-world crime problems and solutions more effectively than existing counterparts which can be oversimple and fragmentary. But they can be applied at different levels of sophistication according to the needs and abilities of users.

The underlying philosophy is that a greater investment in knowledge tools enables better, more adaptive/agile performance in crime prevention, security and community safety – both practice and research.

The frameworks include:

  • A clear and consistent suite of terms, definitions and concepts with which to articulate, record and share diverse approaches to crime and security
  • The 5Is Framework which is both an advanced process model (Intelligence, Intervention, Implementation, Involvement, Impact & process evaluation) and a knowledge capture framework. It is a more sophisticated counterpart of the SARA model for Problem-Oriented Policing, and also for describing action for knowledge-management purposes.
  • The Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity, a ‘one-stop-shop’ integrated framework of the immediate causes of criminal events, and counterpart intervention principles – similar to the Problem Analysis Triangle but much more comprehensive and detailed
  • The Ds Framework, for describing how situational interventions have their effect on the offender
  • The Misdeeds and Security Framework, for thinking systematically about the range of crime risks and security possibilities potentially emerging from new products and other fruits of design

The Crime Frameworks website focuses variously on here-and-now crime, security and terrorism problems; the secure design of products, places (CPTED), systems and services; cybercrime; future crimes; crime-security arms races and other evolutionary processes; and techniques and applications of evaluation.

 

Professor Paul Ekblom PhD FRSA is passionate about the quality of thinking, communication and knowledge in crime prevention, security and community safety. This applies equally, but in different ways, to practice, programmes and policy; and to research, theorising and evaluation within and across the disciplines of Crime Science, design and engineering in material and cyberspace.

Predictive policing in Australia

A new AIC study by researchers from Griffith University reveals the potential for applying predictive policing techniques in Australia.

  • Based on an analysis of crime data in Brisbane, Logan and Townsville, two predictive algorithms and a retrospective crime mapping technique were evaluated.
  • All three methods were found to be effective at predicting spatio-temporal crime patterns for burglary, thefts of vehicles and thefts from vehicles, although this varied between locations.

Read Predictive policing in an Australian context: Assessing viability and utility

Research Project: Prevent It

"We are looking for individuals who are worried about their sexual urges regarding children and want access to help anonymously online.

This research project aims to evaluate a new way to help people decrease their urges to act on sexual impulses involving children. These impulses could be using child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or engaging with a child online or in person.

We are testing the second version of Prevent It, a therapist-assisted online cognitive behavioral psychotherapy program. The first version of Prevent it proved to be effective, safe, and well-appreciated (see results). After the first clinical trial, we have revised the manual, taking into account clinical experience, patient feedback, and the statistical analyses of the patient data. The study is an academically initiated, global, randomised, waitlist controlled clinical trial.

Child sexual abuse, both online and offline, violates children's rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and causes a lot of damage to both the children and their relatives. The perpetrators of child sexual abuse or CSAM use can also experience suffering related to their urges or behavior, and risk both social and legal sanctions. Many of the existing programs targeting child sexual abuse are offered in correctional or forensic settings, and are thus mainly a method to reduce the risk of reoffending – not preventing abuse in the first place. This is the gap Prevent It wants to fill.

The study participation is free of charge, voluntary and anonymous. Recruitment for Prevent It is ongoing from November 2022 until June 2024. Currently, the english version of the treatment program is available. The Swedish, German, and Portuguese versions of the treatment program will start recruitment in February 2023. 

The study has been approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (Dnr 2022-03938-01) and it is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki for research ethics."

Click here to register

AIC: Crime by outlaw motorcycle gang members during club conflicts

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new Trends & issues paper on crime by outlaw motorcycle gang members during club conflicts.

  • This study examines the trends in and spatial distribution of recorded offending by Australian outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) affiliates at the onset of a territorial conflict between two clubs in New South Wales.
  • Results show an increase in recorded offending by OMCG affiliates involved in the conflict and based in the disputed territory.
  • Changes in offending patterns were largely limited to the clubs involved in the conflict and localised to the territory in dispute.

This research can help guide focused law enforcement responses during periods of gang conflict.

Read Crime by outlaw motorcycle gang members during club conflicts

EUCPN: Recommendation paper: How online fraud works and how to prevent it

Online fraud continues to be a prominent issue in Europe and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, a lot of information is available about how (online) fraud works and how these scams can be prevented.
If we want to design effective crime prevention initiatives, using the available intelligence is key. This paper puts forward some general concepts and tools to do precisely this.  Several tools that can be implemented in crime prevention initiatives can also serve as a source of inspiration when building new projects or can be implemented within existing ones. Online fraud is characterised by a high degree of flexibility on the part of the offenders, enabling them to adapt to changing circumstances. The information in this paper allows you to develop scientifically backed responses to them in kind.

Published by the EUCPN Secretariat, February 2023

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WHO WEBINAR “FROM EVIDENCE TO ACTION: TOWARDS SCALING UP PARENTING INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT MALTREATMENT AND ENHANCE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS”

 

14h00-15h30 CET / 14 APRIL 2023 

 

This webinar will introduce recently published WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent-child child relationships; provide a state-of the science overview of the underlying evidence that informs the guideline recommendations; offer snapshots of selected national and local initiatives to scale up evidence-based parenting interventions and reflect on how best to further advance uptake.

 

The webinar will be of interest to everyone working on advancing the uptake of evidence-based parenting interventions, and the following stakeholders in particular:

 

o  Relevant government personnel involved in either establishing parenting interventions or approving the implementation of these by non-state actors. This can include personnel responsible for providing normative guidance and training for intervention delivery at the national level, and personnel working at subnational levels, and

o  Donors, project developers, programme managers, and outcome evaluators from research organizations, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations, and bilateral and multilateral development assistance agencies.

 

PROGRAMME

 

Welcome and opening: Dr Etienne Krug, Director SDH, WHO

 

WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance

parent-child relationships:

Dr Alexander Butchart, Unit Head for Violence Prevention, SDH, WHO

 

The evidence base for parenting interventions:

Professor Frances Gardner and Dr Sophia Backhaus, Oxford University

 

Audience questions and answers

 

Country case studies on scaling up evidence-based parenting interventions:

 

o  Professor Liane Peña Alampay, Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

o   Dr. Godfrey Siu Etyang, Child Health and Development Centre, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda

 

Audience questions and answers

 

Quick-fire reflections on priorities and next steps for advancing the uptake of evidence-based parenting interventions:

 

o  Mr Benjamin Perks, Head of Campaigns and Advocacy, Division of Communications, UNICEF

o  Ms Shekufeh Zonji, global technical lead for the Early Childhood Development Action Network: Global Initiative to Support Parents

o  Dr Jamie Lachman, CEO, Parenting for Lifelong Health

 

Closing:

Dr Etienne Krug, Director SDH, WHO

 

REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/3TFb1Yc

 

The Zoom webinar link will be open as of 13h45 to enable all participants

to be logged in by 14h00. 

AIC: Implementing online warnings to prevent the use of child sexual abuse material


The AIC has released new research undertaken by the University of Tasmania. This research investigated methods that multiple sectors should adopt to implement online warning messages for the prevention of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) offending. The study concluded:

  • From a technical perspective, there is considerable opportunity to implement online warning messages that prevent CSAM offending.
  • The best approach requires the cooperation of multiple actors within the technology industry, and the implementation of measures by account holders.
  • The premise of this cybersecurity-based approach is that, if a single layer of defence fails, the other layers of defence can still provide protection and prevent offending.

Read How to implement online warnings to prevent the use of child sexual abuse material

EUCPN: Newsletter March 2023: Frontline Politeia: position paper Law enforcement has a major role to play in prevention because they can increase it

 

Frontline Politeia: position paper

Law enforcement has a major role to play in prevention because they can increase its effectiveness with their angle on environmental (situational) prevention in creating safer environments, so that the natural proneness of young people to experimenting with risks becomes less harmful. Position Paper: law enforcement has to be part of the prevention workforce. The question is: how and where?

Hungary: Fraudsters and crooked contractors in the construction industry

The aim of this project is to address the population thinking about renovating and building through an attention-grabbing, humorous video. The short-term goal of which is to become a topic of conversation, and in the long-term, it can also successfully draw the attention of the target group to crooked contractors.

 

Portugal: Secure Field 2022

This project consists of developing a set of actions inherent to the intensification of patrolling, inspection and awareness raising, throughout the National Territory, in order to prevent and combat Property Crime and Trafficking of Human Beings in rural areas.

Portugal: Security in Gas Stations

The Public Security Police and the Portuguese Association of Oil Companies held fifteen awareness-raising actions on safety. The sessions targeted the legal concepts associated with the most common criminal occurrences in these establishments, its prevention and the minimization of damages/consequences.

 

Recommendation paper: International campaigns on exotic pet ownership - Addressing the elephant in the room

The paper lays the foundations for the development and execution of a communication campaign focusing on reducing consumer demand for illegal exotic pets. 

 

 

 

Recommendation paper

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AIC: The new report Homicide in Australia 2020–21

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AIC releases latest figures on homicide in Australia

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released new data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program. The new report Homicide in Australia 2020–21 shows:

  • There were 210 homicide incidents recorded in Australia between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021, a decrease of 51 incidents from the previous year.
  • In 2020‒21, 36 percent (n=76) of homicide incidents were domestic homicides, 35 percent (n=74) were acquaintance homicides and 15 percent (n=32) were stranger homicides.
  • There were 38 intimate partner homicides in 2020–21. Of these, females were the victim in 25 incidents and males in 13 incidents.
  • The female intimate partner homicide victimisation rate in 2020‒21 was 0.25 per 100,000, the lowest rate since the National Homicide Monitoring Program commenced in 1990.
  • There were 221 victims of homicide—152 males (69%) and 69 females (31%).
  • Forty-seven percent (n=65) of male homicide victims from cleared homicides were killed by a friend or acquaintance and 24 percent (n=33) were killed by an intimate partner or family member.
  • Sixty-nine percent (n=45) of female victims from cleared homicides were killed by an intimate partner or family member and 17 percent (n=11) by a friend or acquaintance.
  • There were 263 homicide offenders in 2020‒21—222 males (84%) and 41 females (16%).
  • Sixty-one percent (n=160) of homicide offenders had a criminal history and 35 percent (n=91) had a history of domestic and family violence perpetration and/or victimisation.

Read the AIC media release.
Read Homicide in Australia 2020–21 on the AIC website.

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WHO WEBINAR “FROM EVIDENCE TO ACTION: TOWARDS SCALING UP PARENTING INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT MALTREATMENT AND ENHANCE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS”

14h00-15h30 CET / 14 APRIL 2023 

 

This webinar will introduce recently published WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent-child child relationships; provide a state-of the science overview of the underlying evidence that informs the guideline recommendations; offer snapshots of selected national and local initiatives to scale up evidence-based parenting interventions and reflect on how best to further advance uptake.

 

The webinar will be of interest to everyone working on advancing the uptake of evidence-based parenting interventions, and the following stakeholders in particular:

 

o  Relevant government personnel involved in either establishing parenting interventions or approving the implementation of these by non-state actors. This can include personnel responsible for providing normative guidance and training for intervention delivery at the national level, and personnel working at subnational levels, and

o  Donors, project developers, programme managers, and outcome evaluators from research organizations, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations, and bilateral and multilateral development assistance agencies.

 

PROGRAMME

 

Welcome and opening: Dr Etienne Krug, Director SDH, WHO

 

WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance

parent-child relationships:

Dr Alexander Butchart, Unit Head for Violence Prevention, SDH, WHO

 

The evidence base for parenting interventions:

Professor Frances Gardner and Dr Sophia Backhaus, Oxford University

 

Audience questions and answers

 

Country case studies on scaling up evidence-based parenting interventions:

 

o  Professor Liane Peña Alampay, Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

o   Dr. Godfrey Siu Etyang, Child Health and Development Centre, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda

 

Audience questions and answers

 

Quick-fire reflections on priorities and next steps for advancing the uptake of evidence-based parenting interventions:

 

o  Mr Benjamin Perks, Head of Campaigns and Advocacy, Division of Communications, UNICEF

o  Ms Shekufeh Zonji, global technical lead for the Early Childhood Development Action Network: Global Initiative to Support Parents

o  Dr Jamie Lachman, CEO, Parenting for Lifelong Health

 

Closing:

Dr Etienne Krug, Director SDH, WHO

 

REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/3TFb1Yc

 

The Zoom webinar link will be open as of 13h45 to enable all participants

to be logged in by 14h00.