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Pro-Active Policing

 Drug courts  Neighborhood watch
 Educational interventions to prevent  Policies on hours and days of alcohol

relationship violence in young people sales
 Electronic monitoring  Restorative Justice (RJ) conferencing
 Environmental design to prevent  "Scared Straight" programs

robbery  School-based programs to reduce
 Increased police patrols to reduce drink driving

drink driving  Second responder programs to
 Juvenile curfew laws prevent domestic abuse
 Mass media campaigns to reduce  Sobriety checkpoints

drink driving  Street lighting
 Mental health courts  Temporary release from prison

 Minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)  Therapeutic foster care
laws  Transferring youths to the adult
 Moral Resonation Therapy criminal justice system

 Multisystem therapy  Victim Offender Mediation
 Music making interventions  Wilderness challenge programs

Evidence-based policing in USA:

EBP is acknowledged by some senior police leaders as a valuable approach to improve

policing. The FBI Academy offers a course on EBP.
EBP has become the subject of debate in research journals, deliberating the extent to which

policing should be guided by experimental criminology. But there is consensus that more needs to
be done to bridge the 'translation gap' between frontline police officers and academics.

Evidence-based policing in Australia:

The Australia & New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing (ANZSEBP) was formed in April
2013 in Brisbane, Australia. The ANZSEBP is a police practitioner-led Society. The mission of the
ANZSEBP is to develop, disseminate and advocate for police to use scientific research (―the

evidence‖) to guide best practice in all aspects of policing.
The Society comprises both full members (current, serving police officers in Australia and New
Zealand) and honorary members including police staff members (non-sworn), research

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