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Developing Public Safety and Crime Indicators in Taiwan

Date

2010

Authors

Hebenton, Bill
Jou, Susyan
Chang, Yao-Chung (Lennon)

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Springer

Abstract

Many countries and international organisations (for example, the USA, England and Wales, Japan, the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) have developed measures of public safety and measures of the effectiveness of criminal justice agencies. This paper briefly considers the background to such comparative developments and relates these to the specific contextual conditions of Taiwan. We report the results of a study which reviewed the state of empirical indicator availability in Taiwan and sought to develop an indicator framework for those charged with the governmental task of 'public safety'. The paper concludes by considering how such a framework can be implemented in Taiwan.

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Keywords: Comparative; Crime; Indicators; Public safety; Risk management; Statistics; Taiwan

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Source

Asian Journal of Criminology

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Journal article

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DOI

10.1007/s11417-009-9081-8

Restricted until

2037-12-31