Addressing the Enforcement Gap to Counter Crime : Part 1. Crime, Poverty and the Police

Gramckow, Heike P. ; Greene, Jack ; Marshall, Ineke ; Barao, Lisa

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: TERRORISM;    LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES;    CRIMINALITY;    BASIC SERVICES;    SOLICITATION;   

RP-ID  :  105089

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Crime and violence impede developmentand disproportionally impact poor people in many countriesacross the world. Though crime and violence representserious problems in many countries, less-developed countriesexperience particular concentrations, especially those thatare characterized by fragile or less-trusted governmentinstitutions and pervasive insecurity. Under suchcircumstances, human, social, political, and economicdevelopment suffers. Research across the globe has shownthat holistic approaches that focus on the entire spectrumof a government's crime response chain, ranging fromcrime prevention to enforcement, tend to have betteroutcomes than isolated interventions involving only thepolice or other individual government agency. To date, mostof the Bank's investment in efforts to reduce crimehave focused on crime prevention in the form of urban andsocial development programs. Investment and policy lendingthat support the improvement of police operations to reducecrime and develop stronger neighborhoods are more limited.To assist country teams and client counterparts in theirefforts to develop effective, holistic responses againstcrime that include the police, justice reform staff in theGovernance Global Practice teamed up with internationallyrecognized experts to compile evidence-based good practiceinformation for developing effective police responses tocrime. The resulting three part publication, titledAddressing the Enforcement Gap to Counter Crime: Investingin Public Safety, the Rule of Law and Local Development inPoor Neighborhoods outlines the impact of crime and violenceon development and the poor in particular and explains aproven three-pronged approach to creating police agenciesthat work in collaboration with communities and othergovernment and private service providers to identify crimeproblems, develop holistic and inclusive solutions the applya restorative justice approach. The publication alsooutlines how such approach can be integrated into Bankprojects and client country reform plans.