Decentralisation and local prevention policy plans

Abstract

This study presents the crime-preventive value of local crime prevention policy plans based on the notion of decentralisation, as demonstrated by international experience, which are part of a participatory crime prevention policy focused on the local community and its development. The framework for the involvement of local society in crime prevention actions is approached not as something static and unchanging, but as a dynamic process that responds to changing needs, as well as to social, environmental, cultural, political and economic issues, which are in constant interaction with each other.