Community-Based Crime Prevention: Tackling Hypersegregation and Poverty

There are several options that are effective in crime prevention. However, very few crime prevention programs have been scientifically evaluated and have successfully replicated results. Sherman et al. (1997) report of 500 prevention programs found that there was not enough adequate evidence to conclude what crime prevention programs work and which do not. Sherman et al. (1997) placed seven programs into different institutional settings in which these programs were affective such as programs that were in communities, programs in families, in schools, in labor markets, in businesses and hot