One of the Compendium focuses primarily on strategies and practices concerned with urban crime. It includes some national government strategies supporting, for example, the development of local government and community level project development, and State and Provincial initiatives, as well as strategies established to coordinate and integrate crime prevention action across a region in a planned and strategic way. This section provides examples showing how city governments or local community organizations have been able to successfully establish and sustain good partnership crime prevention structures, and reduce levels of crime and violence through a variety of coordinated urban development and participatory approaches.

Section Two of the Compendium is concerned with youth at risk. It includes examples of projects which target the needs of particular groups of at-risk youth such as street children or those involved in violent youth gangs, or sexually exploited through human trafficking, for example. Other projects provide examples of approaches which form part of national integrated strategies targeting at-risk children and youth, or those already involved with the criminal justice system. A major feature of many projects is the involvement and participation of young people themselves in the planning and development of initiatives.

Section Three of the Compendium includes a list of web-sites and resources around the world which contain information on good practice projects and crime prevention awards.

This Compendium has been compiled by the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) to accompany the Workshop on Strategies and best practices in crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk in the context of the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Bangkok, Thailand from 18-25th April 2005.

The Workshop was organized by ICPC, in collaboration with the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and UN HABITAT, and with the generous financial support of the Government of Canada’s National Crime Prevention Strategy, (Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Canada).

while there are many similarities between cities and countries in terms of the factors facilitating crime and violence, local circumstances and conditions are very important to the success or failure of projects. Adapting strategies to local contexts is vital. In the same way, isolated projects may be successful for short periods of time, but they need to be part of wider strategies at the local level, so that they can be embedded and sustained as part of a comprehensive and balanced approach to tackling and preventing crime, violence and insecurity.

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime

01/04/2005

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