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Community-based Oriented Policing: An Old Yet New Thinking for Safer Neighborhood and Crime Prevention

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  Background I wrote this article since I am aware that nowadays most people busy with their own life, gadget, and have less attach to their society. A theory offered by a German fellow, Ferdinand Tonnies known as Gemeinschaft - Gesselschaft give us a point of view to understand the social ties that exist in different setting. His theory lay on the concept of Wesenwille (Natural Will), which involves a judgment of the intrinsic value of an act rather than its practicality and which varies in degree of rationality. It is manifested in Gemeinschaft (Community) which is maintained by traditional rules and a universal sense of solidarity and which fits the organic theory of social union. Gemeinschaft tends to change into the Kurwille (rational will) based Gesellschaft (society) in which rational self-interest is the stronger elements. Gesellschaft must be held together by deliberately formulated prescription and may be expained in the terms of the Social-Contract theory.  Now, the Social-C

Crime Prevention Against Child Abduction

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  Understanding and Preventing Child Abduction  Background Child Abduction has become everyday news that we read in the newspaper nor watching on the TV News. Most of this crime event happened in the public spaces, even when the children have their chaperon(s) or guardian(s) accompanied them. Abduction can happen within few minutes when we are unconscious with the situation nor lack of attention to the children. This happened due to attention drawing or loss sight on the children to other objects. As parents we have the tendency to protect the children with all of our force, and rarely we forget that the children from their very young ages actually have the capacity to defense themselves and  have a high cautious on the strangers. This can be signaled from the children behavior, in which they would  often feel uncomfortable around people that they think either annoyed to them or drawn their suspicious, or in a strange setting of environment (too quite or too crowded). However, most of