Integration of Crime Prevention Programmes with Economic, Social and Cultural Planning†
| Author | P. R. Loof |
| Published date | 01 December 1971 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000486587100400407 |
| Date | 01 December 1971 |
| Subject Matter | Original Articles |
AUST. &N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Dec., 1971): 4, 4
Integration
0/
Crime
Prevention
Programmes
with
Economic,
Social
and Cultural Planningt
P. R.
LO'O'F*
A
report
on
the
Fourth
United
Nations
Congress on
the
Prevention
ot
Crime
and
the
Treatment
ot
Oitetuiers.
239
THE
theme
of
the
Fourth
United
Nations Congress on
the
Prevention
of
Crime
and
the
Treatment
of
Offenders
was
"Crime
and
Development"
and
most
of
the
agenda
items
were
centred
around
this
theme.
The
agenda
item
that
was
perhaps
more
directly
related
to
this
theme
than
any
other
was
the
item
entitled
"Social Defence Policies
in
Relation
to Development
Planning".
Ipropose to
make
abrief
examination
of
the
deliberations
on
this
item
and
the
implications
of
the
deliberations
for Australia.
Background
The
slgniftcance of
the
relationship
between
crime
and
development
is
one
that
has
only
gradually
evolved.
Little
reference
to
this
aspect
was
made
at
the
First
United
Nations Congress
held
in Geneva. in 1955. However,
the
congress recognised
that
industrialisation
and
the
growth
of cities
had
been
accompanied
by
an
increasing
measure
of social,
family
and
personal
disorganisation.
It
recommended
that
aserious
effort
should
be
made
to
maintain
the
cohesiveness of
the
family
in
order
to
mitigate
as
far
as
possible
the
disorganising consequences of
industrialisation.
The
theme
was developed to a considerable
extent
in
the
Second
United
Nations
Congress
held
in London in 1960.
The
congress
agreed
that
the
problems
arising
from
development
and
social
change
were
intensified
when
the
rate
of social
change
was
rapid
and
when
the
lag
between
the
breakdown
of old social
institutions
and
the
creation
of
new
institutions
was
great.
The
congress
recommended
that
national
agencies
should
be
created
to
co-ordinate
programmes
for
the
prevention
of crime.
It
was
suggested
that,
as
the
roots of
criminal
behaviour
were deeply embedded
in
the
social
and
economic life of a
country,
it
was
important
that
the
agency
should
have
intimate
and
continuous
relationships
with
the
central
authorities
responsible for social
and
economic
planning.
The
congress
referred
to
the
need,
stressed
in
United
Nations
social surveys, to
eliminate
compartmen-
talization
of
thought
and
to
integrate
social
and
economic objectives
in
tRead at
the
Sixth Biennial National Conference of the Australian Crime Prevention,
Correction and After-Care Council, Brisbane, August, 1971.
*Executive Branch, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, Canberra.
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