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Oct 15, 2007 |
Bullying Knows No Borders
Although adults may not worry as much about bullying as they do sexual predators, bullying...
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Oct 15, 2007 |
Casting Too Wide a Net
Cities all across the nation are doing what they can to stem gang violence and...
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Oct 15, 2007 |
Celebrate Crime Prevention Month!
Today is the first day of October and, subsequently, the first day of Crime Prevention...
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Oct 12, 2007 |
We Are Not Powerless To Stop the Shootings
Yesterday, according to the Washington Post, an Ohio high school student brought weapons to school...
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Oct 11, 2007 |
iRobbed
About three weeks ago, I got an iPod. As one of NCPC’s illustrious team of...
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Oct 09, 2007 |
Good News Friday: A Few Less Scammers in your Inbox
Several years ago, I got a particularly amusing scam email. It was from a gentleman...
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Oct 05, 2007 |
Survey Helps Domestic Abuse Victims Help Themselves
Domestic violence is a particularly misunderstood crime. For various reasons, victims often don’t report the...
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Oct 03, 2007 |
Cybercrime is Very … Kind of … Important
According to the FBI’s 2008 budget, the FBI considers cybercrime to be its third-highest priority....
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Sep 28, 2007 |
Our Domestic Arms Race
Normally, blog posts here at Prevention Works tend to be relatively light on Fridays. However,...
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Sep 28, 2007 |
Cyberbullying PSA Contest: Call for Entries
Well folks, NCPC has successfully completed its move across the Potomac River from Washington, DC,...
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Sep 26, 2007 |
Violent Crime Increases for Second Straight Year
According to this year's Crime in the United States report, violent crime continued to rise...
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Sep 25, 2007 |
Higher Prevention
After tragic events, the question I always hear loudest is “How could this have been...
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Sep 24, 2007 |
Prevention Education
Given a choice of how my tax dollars are spent, all things being equal, I’d...
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Sep 14, 2007 |
NCPC Is Moving
After 24 years in downtown Washington, DC, NCPC is moving out of the city. Our...
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Aug 28, 2007 |
Rapid Access to Crime Reports
How long does it take a police officer or sheriff’s deputy to put in his...
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Aug 27, 2007 |
Putting Cities to the Test
Oregon State University researchers have figured out how to test entire communities for drugs using...
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Aug 27, 2007 |
Bad Publicity Brings Good Results
Have you ever wondered about the motivation behind assigning certain criminals nicknames? For example, a...
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Aug 27, 2007 |
Lose Your "Cool," Keep Your Kids
I can’t imagine that it is easy raising a child. Even more daunting might be...
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Aug 27, 2007 |
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Just last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released somber figures regarding the victimization...
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Aug 24, 2007 |
Community Corrections
Since I began blogging about crime prevention, I have been fascinated by alternative sentencing plans,...
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