Involvement

Abstract

Few crime prevention interventions are directly put in place and even fewer operated by the professional preventers that design them — these tasks are often done by other people and agencies. Involvement is therefore a major aspect of the context of crime prevention interventions, Involvement activity a major proportion of the work of practitioners. Involvement failure is often behind overall implementation failure. Therefore it’s important to distinguish Involvement as a separate concept from Implementation in general. We must also develop a knowledge structure to capture the potentially huge amount of good practice of Involvement to be replicated, developed and adapted to context, and bad practice to be avoided.