1 / 7

THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER IN THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL CRIME IN SERBIA

THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER IN THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL CRIME IN SERBIA. Vesna Žunić-Pavlović FASPER, University of Belgrade Dragan Milidragović Novi Sad police department, Ministry of Interior Marina Kovačević-Lepojević FASPER, University of Belgrade.

beth
Download Presentation

THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER IN THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL CRIME IN SERBIA

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER IN THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL CRIME IN SERBIA Vesna Žunić-Pavlović FASPER, University of Belgrade Dragan Milidragović Novi Sad police department, Ministry of Interior Marina Kovačević-Lepojević FASPER, University of Belgrade

  2. SITUATIONAL SCHOOL CRIME PREVENTION • Situational prevention has been seen as the identification, manipulation and control of situational factors associated with offending (Cornish, Clarke, 2003) • Adoption of situational prevention technique at school context in five general categories: increase the effort; increase the risks; reduce the rewards; reduce provocations; and remove excuses.

  3. SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER IN SERBIA • 2002. – introduction of the school police officer in Serbia; 2011. – 311 school police officers in 558 schools • Increasing the risks (extend guardianship, formal surveillance); remove exuses (set rules, drug and alcohol control) • TASKS: prevention of violence and crime, protection of the school property, student traffic safety, preventing the sale of products harmful to students' health

  4. PURPOSE AND METHODOLOGY • PURPOSE: To analize and evaluate the role of the school police officers in crime prevention in schools in Serbia. • SAMPLE: 27 elementary and secondary schools located in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia • METHOD: analyzing the documentation of the NS police department from January 2009 to December 2010 • DATA PROCESSING: descriptive statistics

  5. RESULTS • 20 school police officers engaged in 16 elementary and 11 secondary schools in Novi Sad • 258 incidents detected: 56% crimes (property crime, violent crimes, drug related crime); 24% misdemeanors (insult, abusive and violent behavior); 20% of other incidents (fire, explosions, false bomb alarm).

  6. RESULTS EVALUATION OF THE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER • incidents detection rate higher for 11% • crime detection rate higher for 7% • school crime solving rate higher for 14% • involving in others school crime prevention programs

  7. RECOMMENDATION • Fulltime police officers to specific schools • Multidisciplinary partnership with parents, local community, school administrators and staff • Positive reporting climate • Introduction of CCTV and other physical and technical remedies

More Related