Contained herein are links to organizations designed to give you the equivalent of a network of professionals at your fingertips. It is beneficial for organizations to be able to contact each other, share problems, share solutions, and support each other. The problem of crime is a highly charged issue. There are many differing opinions as regards what should be done with people who violate the social contract and act in such a way as to pose a danger or threat to people and property. It seems that most of the organizations who deal with this problem have an agenda which they claim as uniquely their own, and often get trapped in the confines of their own organizational reality.
Crime is also a politically urgent issue.
There are politicians who will build their career by saying that criminals ought to be locked up and the key thrown away. This will take effort, effort which a lot of people feel that they're entitled not to have to make. The real difficulty is that unless we are going to go through with the idea of keeping all criminals locked up for the rest of their natural lives, there will come a time when each one will leave the institution where he or she was confined and be compelled by necessity to deal with society once again. It seems that we have two choices. The first is to do nothing and leave them to fend for themselves.