Note
"Prepared for Research and National Coordination, Organized Crime Division, Law Enforcement and Policy Branch, Public Safety Canada."
"Report no. 05-2010"
Issued also in French under title: Approches de maintien de l'ordre axé sur la résolution des problèmes en ce qui concerne la culture extérieure du cannabis.
Authors affiliated with: Simon Fraser University.
Available also on the Internet (as of Oct. 2012) at: http://publications.gc.ca/pub?id=412243&sl=0.
Résumé
This report provides an overview of problem-oriented policing and then examines how compatible the current Canadian responses to outdoor marijuana grow operations are with this framework. The main international responses to outdoor marijuana grow operations are reviewed and their compatibility with a problem-oriented policing approach is examined. A novel theoretical approach is proposed to apply a problem-oriented policing framework to outdoor marijuana grow operations, which builds on a foundation provided by the Haddon Matrix and the set of situational crime prevention techniques. Finally, this model is expanded to demonstrate how it may be utilized to address a hypothetical example outdoor marijuana grow operation problem. This paper concludes with suggestion that a problem-oriented framework could make a positive contribution to efforts designed to combat outdoor marijuana grow operations.