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Crime and communities Last Update: 11 January 2006 Related Links
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Tackling the Invisible Problem? An Examination of the Provision of Services to Victims of Racial Harassment in Rural Suffolk
In July 2001 the Scarman Centre, University of Leicester was commissioned by Suffolk County Council and its partner organisations to undertake research into the effectiveness of services provided by local voluntary and statutory agencies to victims of racial harassment in the county's Rural Priority Area (RPA) and other rural and isolated areas of Suffolk.
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Review of Community Participation
The Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) published a report summarising the 109 responses they received to a recent consultation paper. The paper proposed changes to funding arrangements for neighbourhood renewal community participation programmes. It was published in September 2003.
Evaluation of a contracted community policing experiment
In 2000, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) and North Yorkshire Police entered a formal agreement to purchase additional police cover levels for the low-crime village of New Earswick. The following report details this three-year experimental initiative.
Street Wardens Schemes
This document sets out the details and criteria for £25 million funding of Street Warden schemes. This funding is to be allocated from now until the end of March 2004. Closing date for bids to be received by the Government Offices for the Regions is 25 September 2001.
Neighbourhood Warden Schemes
The Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions has announced a further 120 schemes to be funded in addition to the 36 announced in February 2001 . The money will cover the cost of employing the wardens, scheme managers, administration and project costs.
Citizens have rights and responsibilities towards the community
The 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey just published is a large-scale survey that will be run every other year. The survey adds to the continuing debate about social capital, addressing issues of social cohesion and civil renewal. The Home Office can assess this performance against targets.
The public health approach to crime prevention
Programs to prevent and reduce violence sometimes adopt a public health approach to crime prevention. The public health approach helps to bring alternative views, tools and techniques to complement these of criminal justice. This report, from the Australian Institute of Criminology, identifies the significant areas of the process.
Capacity of the criminal justice system to prevent crime
Criminal Justice System action to prevent crime is a tertiary level prevention measure. It is conventionally seen as acting through deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation, and directly through effects on socialisation.
Working with communities to prevent and reduce crime
This report examines four approaches to crime reduction and community safety. It outlines the background to each approach, giving illustrations of the type of intervention that each approach might lead to.
Neighbourhoods that work
There have been many studies in the UK about neighbourhoods that do not work. This report, by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, attempts to redress the balance by presenting a study of Bournville, a neighbourhood that works.
Recycling assets to tackle gun crime
£1.5 million of confiscated criminals' money is to be put back into the community to tackle gun crime. The £1.5m funding has been allocated from recovered criminal assets seized by the law enforcement and prosecuting agencies. Money seized from criminals will directly benefit communities who suffer the consequences of crime.
Youth at risk?
This report presents the first set of findings from a national survey of young people funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which aims to identify the factors that place young people at risk of displaying problem behaviour in later life and what factors mitigate those risks.
Conducting Community Surveys: Results of a Feasibility Study
The Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate (RDS) commissioned a feasibility study into whether a telephone-based survey could be used to monitor, at the local level, levels of crime and satisfaction with the police. The intention was to develop a sound methodology for public consultation surveys that the police or other local bodies would then be free to adopt.
Tackling anti-social behaviour: information and case studies about local authority work - Research Briefing Paper 16
This report brings together information from the Home Office and Local Government Association's (LGA) recent surveys on how local authorities are tackling anti-social behaviour.
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