Crime and Prevention Field Guide (Updated)
Source: USAID | Year: 2021
This Crime and Violence Prevention Field Guide (“Field Guide”) is designed to support USAID officers and other practitioners in the LAC region who are working on citizen security and in other sectors in which crime and violence prevention can be mainstreamed. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding crime, violence, and prevention as part of broader citizen security systems; evidence-based information about effective interventions to prevent crime and violence; and practical advice and tools on how to design, implement, measure, and evaluate crime and violence prevention and citizen security projects.
This guide is an updated version of the Field Guide USAID’s LAC Bureau first produced in 2016. The current document draws more extensively on examples from the LAC region and provides the most updated data on crime and violence available in 2021. The Field Guide is applicable to a wide range of contexts, however, and is intended for use by stakeholders working on crime, violence, and citizen security issues across the world. The overall objectives of the Field Guide are to offer an overview of the problem of crime and violence in the LAC region and describe the most important conceptual approaches and interventions that have been implemented to address the problem. This version was revised during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to significant increases of domestic and GBV violence across the LAC region, negatively affected the ability of government authorities to provide services and protect citizens, and allowed gangs and other criminal organizations in the region to find new opportunities for continuing to operate with impunity.
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