If you are new to crime
reduction/community safety, the list below should
help you to target your initial reading around the
subject. The titles have been selected for their
importance or wide coverage – there are so many
areas and specialist topics where there are more
in depth reports that we will add subject reading
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Many of these titles will also have lists of
further references if you wish to delve deeper
into the subject. For this first list, we have
tried to make sure that you have easy access to
the publications listed, rather than having to
order them from publishers, but future lists will
include academic and commercially published
material.
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Oxford:
Pease, K. (2002) ‘Crime Reduction’ in
Maguire, M. Morgan, R. and Reiner R (eds) Oxford
Handbook of Criminology (3rd edition)
Oxford: Clarendon, 2002
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London.
Home Office, 1998
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Crime
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Easingwold:
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Jon
Bright. London: Demos, 1997
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London:
Nacro, 2001. Community Safety Practice
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Marcus
Felson Ronald V Clarke. London: Home Office,
1998. Police Research Series Paper 98
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Oxford: Pease, K. (2002) ‘Crime Reduction’ in Maguire, M.
Morgan, R. and Reiner R (eds) Oxford Handbook of Criminology
(3rd edition) Oxford: Clarendon, 2002
This chapter gives a broad overview of a number of types of
intervention in crime reduction with some classifications
developed for these, the mechanism through which crime prevention
works, primary, secondary and tertiary reduction, hot spots,
repeat victimisation and the infrastructure of crime reduction.
There is a discussion on making people want to reduce crime, some
of the misgivings of researchers on the direction of policy in
this field, and a look at the future of crime reduction. Although
compressed into one chapter, there are references throughout as
well as suggestions for further reading.
Price: £32.99 (Paperback)
Click here
for more information and purchasing on the Oxford Handbook of
Criminology (3rd edition)
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Passport
to Crime Reduction
Easingwold: Home Office Crime Reduction Centre, 2003
The Passport to Crime Reduction is designed to
introduce practitioners and users to the basic
principles, processes and tools of crime reduction. It
provides a balanced programme of underpinning knowledge,
theory, and practical skills. It will equip the user
with basic crime reduction training that can be adapted
to suit the individual situation. The guide will assist
in identifying key elements of good practice for
partnership working, and also examine the application of
problem solving processes to crime reduction tools.
Download
Passport
to Crime Reduction
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London: Home Office, 1998
This guide was published at the same time as the
Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (CDA) to provide clear and
simple information about the provisions of the Act. It
is intended as a useful introduction and goes through
each of the clauses of the Act to explain what they
mean. The guide cannot be taken as an authoritative
legal interpretation of the Act's provisions, and has
some time limited references to contacts and further
guidance, but is helpful in providing a basic grounding.
Some of the original measures have been strengthened or
re-emphasised since publication of the CDA and this
guidance, but a knowledge of the original measures is
invaluable before you being to look into a specific
problem. Print copies are no longer available but the
guide can be downloaded using the link below.
Download
Crime and Disorder Act Introductory Guide
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Crime Concern Briefing Paper in association with the
London Borough of Havering, 2003
Section 17 of the CDA introduced a provision
requiring authorities to consider crime and disorder
reduction in the exercise of all their duties. This
12-page briefing provides a follow-up process and
practice paper to Mainstreaming
Community Safety: a practical guide to implementing
section 17 of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act
(608 KB) published in 2000. Both were published under
the Partnership Support Programme and the latest paper
highlights recent examples of promising approaches,
mainly focusing on the London Borough of Havering.
Download
Keeping Section 17 on the Agenda: good process and
practice for local authorities implementing section 17
of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act
(600 KB)
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Easingwold: Home Office Crime Reduction Centre, 2002
Monitoring and evaluation are essential parts of the
planning and management process. As well as evidence of
the level of achievement, evaluation can be used to
determine whether a project should go ahead, can
pinpoint resources and can provide valuable information
to make improvements during a project. The Passport is a
self-learning document which can be worked through in
its entirety by those new to evaluation. Those who
already have some experience can skip some sections,
using the Passport as a useful reminder. A glossary sets
out the definitions of key terms used in the evaluation
process.
Download
Passport to Evaluation: an introduction to evaluating
crime reduction initiatives and projects. Limited
print copies are available from Training Resource
Solutions, Home Office Crime Reduction Centre, The
Hawkhills, Easingwold, York YO61 3EG.
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London: Nacro, 2001. Community Safety Practice
Briefing
This 16-page briefing is an introduction to cost
analysis for community safety practitioners. It
discusses the different ways in which cost analysis can
be used in crime reduction and some of the policy
implications attached to these approaches. It gives some
examples from the field and some ideas for using cost
analysis in crime audits and the development of crime
and disorder reduction strategies.
Download
Value for money? Cost analysis in crime reduction.
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Marcus Felson Ronald V Clarke. London: Home Office,
1998. Police Research Series Paper 98
This 35 page report attempts to explain the
criminological theories most relevant to everyday
practice. It tries to avoid theoretical jargon whilst
explaining the recent "opportunity" theories:
these allow an understanding of what causes crime
without the complicating factors of psychological or
social processes. The report puts forward ten principles
of opportunity and crime and illustrates how the
theories assist thinking about crime prevention.
The report is one of the shorter publications
touching on theories surrounding crime reduction and, as
such, is more accessible in the early days of a new job.
More titles on criminological theory can be found in the
Advanced Reading List, with brief descriptions of some
theories found in the Online Learning section of the
Crime Reduction Website's Learning Zone.
Download
Opportunity Makes the Thief: practical theory for crime
prevention
(42 Kb). Orders for printed copies may be requested
from Home Office Research, Development & Statistics
Directorate, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT
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London: Department of the Environment, Transport and
the Regions, 1997
This guide, although somewhat dated, is a basic
primer in how to involve the community in regeneration
programmes. It covers the principles of community
involvement, involvement at each stage of the process,
techniques for involving the community, involving ethnic
minorities, faith communities and young people, and
involvement in local authority-wide programmes. The
guide also contains lists of further reading, but some
of the references to the Single Regeneration Budget are
no longer relevant – its value is in the basic
principles of involving communities which can be
transferred to crime and disorder reduction.
There is a leaflet which highlights some of the
general principles of community involvement, and
summarises the new advice contained in the 1997 guide on
involving ethnic minorities, faith communities and young
people in regeneration programmes. This leaflet is
available from the link below:
Download
Involving Communities in Urban and Rural Regeneration: a
guide for practitioners 2nd edition leaflet
The full report can be obtained priced £10 from the
Publications Sales Centre, Unit 8, Goldthorpe Industrial
Estate, Rotherham, S63 9BL. Telephone: 01709 891318,
Fax: 01709 881673.
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Easingwold: Home Office Crime Reduction Centre, 2003
This is a two hour and a half hour training session
designed to introduce individuals and groups in the
community to the basic principles of crime and disorder
reduction and to encourage them to get involved in
reducing crime, especially anti-social behaviour. Whilst
the practitioner will need to know more than this and
could be the person delivering the session, going
through the package when new in post will give a view of
what the community could be expected to learn to become
more involved. It will also reinforce what you already
know.
Download
Crime Reduction Basics: tackling crime and anti-social
behaviour in the community.
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Jon Bright. London: Demos, 1997
Although published early in 1997, this book is a
useful discussion of the argument that the criminal
justice system is not very good at preventing
crime, clearing up crime, enhancing community safety,
deterring offenders or rehabilitating those who are
convicted. The case is made that criminal justice policy
needs to shift towards prevention with a national
strategy which aims to reduce the risk factors which
lead to criminality whilst strengthening the
'protective' factors which divert would-be offenders
from crime. Opportunity to commit crime must be reduced,
but emphasis is placed on early childhood prevention,
opportunities for young people and safer neighbourhoods.
This is an easy to read paper which sets out the
argument for a need to spend more on preventing crime.
Details
of the paper which costs £12.95, are found on the
Demos website, together with how
to order a copy of Turning the Tide: crime, community
and prevention
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conducted by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of
Constabulary in collaboration with the Home Office,
Audit Commission, LGA, Ofsted and the Social Services
Inspectorate. London: Home Office Her Majesty's
Inspectorate of Constabulary, July 2000
This review of crime reduction activity took place
after the implementation of the Crime and Disorder Act
1998 (CDA) and examined how police forces and partners
were embracing previous reports on crime reduction as
well as implementing the Act itself. Although somewhat
dated now, it provides a useful reference point for
those charged with implementing the CDA locally with
examples and suggestions for action to improve crime
reduction work. The review focused in detail on 12
police force areas and 3 community safety partnerships
in each of these areas.
Download
the executive summary of Calling Time on Crime: a
thematic inspection on Crime and Disorder.
Download
the full report of Calling Time on Crime: a thematic
inspection on Crime and Disorder in parts
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Easingwold: Home Office Crime Reduction Centre, 2000
Designed for the non-specialist, this guide goes
through the whole process of conducting a crime
prevention survey for domestic properties. It contains
advice on the principles of crime prevention, the onion
peeling principle, how to prepare and carry out the
survey and giving appropriate advice to the householder.
It is invaluable for those needing an introduction to
physical security and can be used as a tool to help
individuals and communities take action themselves. A
computer based training CD-ROM (2001) is also available
to complement the field guide. Both are available from
the Crime Reduction Centre for a small charge (£1 plus
P&P for the booklet alone, £3.50 for the complete
package). The CBT is likely to be available over the
Internet in the foreseeable future, but in the meantime,
please contact the Centre via email trs@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
or by phone on 01347 825079.
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