Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

Crime & communities

Tackling fear of crime & disorder in the community

Useful Contacts & Websites

  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
    Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
    3rd Floor, C/5
    Eland House
    Bressenden Place
    London
    SW1E 5DU
    Tel: 020 7944 8383
    neighbourhoodrenewal@odpm.gsi.gov.uk

  • Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

  • Priority Estates Project
    PEP works with statutory and voluntary agencies and with local communities, to improve services and make sure they meet the needs of local people. They provide advice, hands-on project work, training and research services.
    Tel: 0161 877 3223

  • Real Justice
    Real Justice runs conferences, also called family group conferences, restorative justice conferences and community accountability conferences. A conference is a structured meeting between offenders, victims and both parties' family and friends in which they deal with the consequences of the crime and decide how best to repair the harm.

  • Regional Co-ordination Unit

  • Regional Development Agencies
    The eight Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in England are charged with promoting sustainable economic development and social and physical regeneration within their regions. They are non-departmental bodies (NDPBs) sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry.

  • Renewal.net
    An on-line guide to what works in neighbourhood renewal. Renewal.net is for anyone already involved in neighbourhood renewal or wanting to get involved.

  • Safer Communities
    This website which aims to help real people in real communities tackle the crime issues that affect them.

  • SaferSanerSchools
    SaferSanerSchools helps educators improve classroom management, school discipline and school climate through restorative practices. It offers training, print materials and videos to teach new ways of responding to problem-behaviour, which hold young people accountable, enhance relationships among students, faculty, administrators and parents, and build a sense of community in the school.

  • SCOPE

  • Strategies for the Vulnerable
    This is aimed at practitioners and gives useful information about how they can reduce fear of crime among specific vulnerable groups.

  • Stonewall
    Part of Stonewall's work to achieve legal equality and social justice for lesbians, gay men and bi-sexual people.
    Citizenship 21 is a project from Stonewall which provides practical ways to prmote equality and challenge prejudice.

  • Suzy Lamplugh Trust

  • Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS)
    TPAS is a national non-profit making organisation that provides information, advice, training, consultancy, seminars and conferences on all aspects of involving tenants in their housing management.
    TPAS
    5th Floor
    Trafford House
    Chester Road
    Manchester
    M32 0RS
    Tel: 0161 868 3500
    Fax: 0161 877 6256
    info@tpas.org.uk

  • The Centre for Criminological Research
    The Centre for Criminological Research is a long-established independent unit within the Faculty of Law, which is part of Oxford University's Social Sciences Division. The Centre has incorporated within it the Probation Studies Unit.

  • The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
    Research information and education on crime reduction.
    School of Public Policy
    University College London
    29/30 Travistock Square
    London
    WC1H 9QU
    Tel: 020 7679 4781

  • TOGETHER
    This website is dedicated to practitioners who are working to tackle ASB in their areas. There is also a section for members of the public to find out who their local ASB co-ordinator is.

  • Track Off
    This site is the campagin to educate people about the dangers and consequences of railway crime.

  • Transforming Conflict
    British-based Transforming Conflict is an organisation offering training, consultancy and support in educational settings for people seeking to enhance their skills in building a sense of community, fostering a spirit of inclusion and dealing creatively with challenging situations.

  • Victim Support
    Tel: 0845 30 30 900

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Last update: Thursday, October 26, 2006

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