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responsibilization  

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  • Responsibilization concerns a shift of primary responsibility for crime prevention and public security away from the state and toward businesses, organizations, individuals, families, and communities. It is a strategy that involves a way of thinking and a variety of techniques designed to change the manner in which governments act upon crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime & Justice; Responsibilization]

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