Veiligheid verkend: Een empirisch onderzoek naar de determinanten van veiligheid

Veiligheid verkend: Een empirisch onderzoek naar de determinanten van veiligheid

Urlings, T.H.
Blank, J.L.T.

2011-11-30

Safety has been high on the political agenda for several years. Increased police deployment, heavier sentences, various preventive measures to combat truancy, neighbourhood renewal and strengthening integration are just a small selection of the various policies that are frequently mentioned in the debate on the improvement of safety. Important questions are: how effective are these measures and in which situation do they give the best results? Especially in this time of financial cutbacks there is little room and great pressure to spend each Euro as effectively as possible. For this reason, it is very important to know in which way safety can be influenced effectively and which costs this involves. This report is the first in a series of three reports on the effectiveness of the Dutch safety policy. It aims to develop a framework with which questions about its effectiveness can be answered. The research is based on three key principles. Firstly, safety is truly used as a key variable. Intermediate products, such as the number of police reports or the number of recorded or solved crimes, are of secondary importance. Secondly, safety is regarded as the result of social factors and a complex network/chain of safety-related provisions. As yet, little is known about the empirical relationship between safety, social factors and safety policy. Scientific literature provides hardly any clues. Therefore, this research is a valuable addition to the existing scientific knowledge. Thirdly, such framework is only useful if it can be used to conduct empirical research that could lead to specific policy recommendations. This implies that there is a strong emphasis on the operationalisation of certain concepts and the possibility to substantiate them with available data. These three starting points have a high level of ambition. The first report should therefore be primarily seen as an exploration in which the emphasis is placed on an inventory of available data, identifying relevant social factors and determining the effectiveness of police deployment.

safety
security
police
effectiveness
public
RePEc

H56
Z18

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