Manitoba Justice
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Crime Prevention
The Crime Prevention Unit within Corrections is responsible for the coordination and implementation of crime prevention policies and programs. Manitoba aims to prevent criminal behaviour before it takes root by focusing on the factors that put individuals, families, and community at risk. Factors include family violence, lack of access to resources, poor parenting skills, interrupted school problems, drug abuse, etc.
Manitoba also supports traditional crime prevention approaches such as "target hardening", e.g. home safety audits, better lighting, and istalling vehicle immobilizers to prevent auto theft.
The Unit continues to explore how to better meet the needs of the community and implement evidence-based programming to reduce individuals from being victimized or coming into contact with the law as offenders.
Events
Programs
The Unit is responsible for the administration and monitoring of specific crime prevention initiatives such as:
- Lighthouses
- Turnabout
- Transition Education and Resources for Females (TERF)
- Safety Aid: Crime Prevention for Older Manitobans
- Project Gang-proof: Manitoba's written resource on Crime Prevention that include a handbook, fact sheet for parents, website and resource line.
- Safe Schools Manitoba
- Citizens on Patrol
The Unit works closely with the National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC) and co-administers the Crime Prevention Action Fund. This fund helps communities undertake evidence-based activities.
Risk Factors for crime and victimization (Source: Rick Linden)
- Neuropsychological:
- FASD
- Heredity,
- Poor nutrition parental nutrition
- Family:
- Poor parenting & parent-child connection,
- Family violence,
- Welfare Reliance
- Parental Criminality
- School:
- Truancy,
- Low attachment,
- Low grades
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse:
- Peers:
- Negative Associations,
- Foster/Group home involvement,
- Neighbourhoods:
- Disorganized,
- Transient,
- Single parent households
- Economics:
- Low income,
Departmental Partnerships
The Unit works with numerous departments such as, Health and Healthy Living, Education, Citizenship and Youth, Healthy Child Manitoba, Aboriginal and Northern Affairs, Manitoba Status of Women, and Family Services and Housing to coordinate and implement prevention initiatives.
The Unit works closely with the Healthy Child Manitoba Office (HCMO) to explore the most effective programs available to prevent crime. HCMO is the provincial early childhood development strategy and provides numerous programs such as the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program), Families First, and Healthy Baby. These programs are prime examples of crime prevention through social development initiatives.
The Unit, (HCMO), and Education, Citizenship and Youth are working in partnership to assist interested schools in administering the Life Skills Training Program by fall 2009. Life Skills Training is evidence-based substance abuse prevention initiative.
Crime prevention involves working to affect long-term change in high crime neighbourhoods. Manitoba Justice works with Neighbourhoods Alive! Manitoba's social and economic development strategy, to focus on housing, safety, employment and training, education and recreation.
Neighbourhood's Alive! has allocated over $3.0 million to safety related projects in high-risk communities e.g. School Resource Officer Program.
The Unit is working with the City of Winnipeg in the implementation of the City's policy.
Manitoba Attorney General Safer Communities Awards
The Manitoba Attorney General Safer Communities Awards recognize individuals, community groups and organizations
that have made outstanding contributions to developing, promoting, and/or enhancing community crime prevention
initiatives in Manitoba.
Neighbourhood Solutions: Working together
to Address Sexual Exploitation on our Streets (579Kb PDF)
This publication is a resource for neighbourhoods that want to learn more about the issue of sexual
exploitation through prostitution.
Child Find Manitoba, in partnership with the Province of Manitoba has launched the second phase of the Stop Sex with Kids public awareness campaign. Visit the Stop Sex With Kids website to take action against child sexual exploitation.
Lighthouses
Lighthouses is a Manitoba Justice fund that helps develop partnership that support recreational, educational and
social programs for young Manitobans. Part of the Neighbourhoods Alive! program, Lighthouses makes use of schools, recreation centres and
other community facilities after hours for sports, arts, music and other activities organized by and for local
youth.
Manitoba Seniors and Healthy Aging Secretariat
