Good social order is an important condition for human living. People are happy to live in the circumstances of no (or less) fear of victimization. This research, sponsored by Taipei County Government, is conducted to establish an appropriate crime control policy for local government and citizens. Located in northern Taiwan, Taipei County is the largest county both in terms of overall population and population density (population: 3.5 million, population density: 1,666 per Sq. Km) in the country. The purpose of this research is to explore an evidence-oriented and feasible crime control policy. Data, including qualitative and quantitative data, are collected from following approaches: official crime statistics, focus group interviews, analysis of 109, 351 calls from year 1999 to 2000 to the Taipei County Police Department, and questionnaire survey. According to the empirical data collected in this research, the crime control policy includes the following terms: (1) Short-term policy - increasing police patrol density; imposing stronger control on hot spots of crime; more law enforcement for traffic order; promoting police service quality; (2) Mid-term policy - implementing community policing; enhancing the management function of community and apartment; increasing the numbers of police, updating police equipment and facilities; promoting police training and education quality; (3) Long-term policy - advocating legal and moral education; promoting media s social accountability; and persisting in fair and rigid law enforcement.
 

Date: Thursday 5 July 2001

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Venue: 14/F, Senior Common Room, K.K. Leung Bldg., The University of Hong Kong.
 

Dr. Wei-Teh Mon is an associate professor in the department of Public Administration and Policy, National Central Police University, Taiwan. Professor Mon is a fellow of the International Exchange Institution of the Central Police University, and also a visiting professor at the National Taipei University. He earned his master degree from Western Illinois University in USA, and completed his Ph.D. degree at National Central Police University. Dr. Mon was the first Ph.D. graduate from the National Central Police University. His major is Criminal Justice. Professor Mon was invited by Hoover Institution, Stanford University as a visiting scholar in 1998 and invited by the University of California at Berkeley (School of Law) in 1999. He has published over twenty articles on Policing, White Collar Crime, Criminological Theory and Crime Control Policy. He is author of the following three books: The Causal Factors and Control Policy of White Collar Crime, The Empirical Research on Corporate Crime and Introduction to Management, and coauthor of two books: Police Administration and Management and Quality Policing. He also presented paper at the annual meeting of Crime and Its Control in Great China, 2000 (Center for Criminology, University of Hong Kong), American Society of Criminology (ASC), Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC).