This is a police unit specialized in domestic violence crimes. Its aim is to increase the conviction of aggressors through thorough investigations into cases of domestic violence, and to empower victims by applying techniques to validate their experiences and by offering information and access to community services and the justice system.
This is a program to reduce recidivism by offering an option to inmates in the process of returning to the community before the full sentence is served, allowing the remainder of the sentence to be served under community supervision.
This is a program developed by the police in collaboration with therapeutic and welfare services aimed at high-risk offenders between the ages of 20 and 45. The objective is to reduce criminal behavior, assuming that the treatment of those individuals can contribute to crime reduction.
The pilot project included:
1) User participation in intensive therapeutic actions, such as weekly consultations with a social worker to discuss drug problems and possible relapses;
2) Liaison with social assistance services to provide access to housing;
This is a community-based reentry program to reduce recidivism and reincarceration rates for medium- and high-risk inmates.
It provides treatment for those with substance use problems. In the first 30-45 days after release from jail, participants are offered employment, housing, and substance use treatment services.
Subsequently, participants attend group therapy sessions, family group therapy, Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meetings, or individual counseling.
This program consists of supervision and monitoring of parolees who are at a risk of waiving open regime requirements and returning to prison. The goal is to reduce the prison population and the costs of the incarceration system through intermediate sanctions between home detention and standard incarceration.
The program offers more supervision, monitoring, and requirements than standard interventions, with 10 agent-participant encounters per month and a requirement to maintain education and/or employment or search for a work placement.
This is a program that involves a partnership between police officers and young offenders accompanied by police supervision, as an alternative to the judicial process.
In order to take part in the program, the young person must not be a repeat offender, must have committed minor crimes, and must admit to the offence committed, in addition to being authorized by their family and cooperating with police supervision.
A restorative justice program that focuses on youth who commit shoplifting. When used as an alternative to the judicial process, restorative justice conferences generally involve a youth who has admitted to the offense, in consultation with their advocates, the victim, victim advocates, a police officer, and a moderator to discuss the offense and its consequences. The offender is expected to apologize to the victim, offer financial restitution, or perform personal or community service work.
This is a cash transfer program conditional on adolescents staying in school. The aim is to reduce the incidence of HIV among girls and women aged between 13 and 20.
The intervention was implemented by the South African Medical Research Council and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Rural Public Health and Health Transition Research Unit.
This is a government program that aims to reduce home invasions and the fear of crime. Its primary function is to recruit leaders and organize citizens into “block clubs”, whose participation in individual and collective crime prevention activities was encouraged and instructed by the program.
Club meetings encouraged citizens to expand the deployment of physical security resources, participate in community patrol activities, and interact socially in the neighborhood, as well as increase collaboration with the police.
Launched in Kansas City in 2014, this is a policing strategy to reduce homicide rates and violent crimes committed by chronic offenders involved in criminal organizations.
The program is the result of a collaboration among police officers, social workers, and community and research organizations, and aims to outline a message, intervention, and implementation directly targeting individuals known to be involved in crime.