The handbook of community safety, gender and violence prevention : practical planning tools / Carolyn Whitzman
- Bib ID:
- 4388835
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Whitzman, Carolyn
- Description:
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- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008
- xii, 276 p. : charts ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781844075010
- 184407501X
- 9781844075027
- 1844075028
- Full contents:
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- Introduction to the issues
- What this book is, and is not
- Challenging the traditional crime and punishment approach
- Developing a new framework for community safety and violence prevention
- Brief outline of the rest of the book
- Defining the problem : the prevalence of violence and insecurity
- Defining community safety and violence
- The prevalence of violence : an overview
- Violence across the life course:
- The relationship between violence and insecurity
- Conclusion : a largely private issue or a public concern?
- Analysing the problem : causes, consequences and prevention of violence
- Root causes of violence and risk/resilience factors
- The consequences of violence
- The prevention of violence
- Conclusion : from analysis to action on violence prevention
- Coordinated community safety : from local to global
- Coordination and the question of scale
- Coordination at the neighbourhood scale
- Coordination at the city scale
- Coordination at the national scale
- Coordination at the regional and international scales
- Conclusion : coordination at different scales and the question of good governance
- The process of community safety planning
- Models of community safety planning processes
- Stage one : developing partnerships around a problem
- Stage two : diagnostic tools and community consultation
- Stage three : developing work plans based on a logic framework
- Stage four : implementation and monitoring
- Stage five : evaluation : the hardest part
- Stage six : modification, maintenance and mainstreaming
- The components of community safety
- Early childhood strategies
- School-based interventions
- Community economic development approaches
- Public awareness approaches
- Capacity-building and the question of self-defence
- Service provision : better coordinated and more responsive services
- Safer spaces : spatial planning
- Policing approaches
- Legal and correctional approaches
- Conclusion : a wide menu of community safety strategies
- The future of community safety and violence prevention.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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