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international crime prevention partnerships  

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  • Crime prevention partnerships are a way to reduce crime by mobilizing and coordinating the work of schools, social and youth services, law enforcement, public health, housing, families, and so on. The partnerships endeavor to mobilize those agencies and individuals most able to tackle the social and developmental risk factors that are known to predispose individuals to engage in crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Crime Prevention Partnerships, International]

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