Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention
Definition
A public-health framework applied to crime: primary targets the whole population, secondary targets individuals or communities at elevated risk, tertiary targets known offenders to prevent reoffending.
Related terms
- Community safety partnership
- A multi-agency governance arrangement that brings together police, local government, health, housing, education, and voluntary bodies to share data and coordinate responses...
- Developmental crime prevention
- Interventions targeting risk and protective factors at key life-course stages, particularly early childhood and adolescence, to reduce the probability that an individual...
- Displacement
- The relocation of crime following a prevention intervention. Can take five forms: territorial (to another place), temporal (to another time), target (to...
- Neighbourhood regeneration
- Physical, economic, and social improvement of deprived or high-crime areas, including housing renovation, public space design, employment schemes, and community organisation, as...
- Social crime prevention
- Strategies that target the developmental, social, and environmental conditions that produce offending, rather than the immediate situational opportunity. Operates upstream of any...
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- Social Prevention and Community SafetyA public-health framework applied to crime: primary targets the whole population, secondary targets individuals or communities at elevated risk, tertiary targe...