... act of crime prevention may be allowed to begin and be undertaken. As with any form of action plan, there needs to be solid concrete foundations in place to allow the various interested agencies to operate within their guidelines and have clearly identifiable goals at hand. Without this core understanding and purpose, any plan no matter how complex and well thought, will inevitably fail, due to the strains placed upon it, by the non-understanding of directions and purposes of the agencies that are required to fulfill their obligation. Failure of one agency to integrate and achieve its objectives may actually lead to failure of the whole plan. (Crawford, 1998) Therefore, at the beginning of the formation of the crime prevention body, it will need to have an action plan manual, which clearly designates the strategy that will be put into place. All programs must take on the outlook of its modeling ...

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