Community Safety
Nacro Briefings
Nacro, the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, have published short (2-4) page briefings on a range of topics for practitioners. The following 4 were published in February 2003 and deal with youth crime, community safety, and new DAT/CDRP partnerships.
-
Setting Up Neighbourhood Community Safety Projects: A Summary
-
Merging And Motivating: Research Into The Working Relationship Of DATs And CDRPs
Youth Victimisation: A Literature Review
Title: Youth Victimisation: A Literature
Review
Author: Robert Jubb
Series: Nacro Community Safety Practice Briefings
Number of pages: 4
Date published: February 2003
Discussion of young people and crime often focuses on youth offending. This literature review, summarising several recent publications, highlights the 'forgotten' issue of young people as victims of crime, showing that they are disproportionately at risk of victimisation.
Download
Youth Victimisation: A Literature Review 
PDF 43Kb
Rethinking Prevention: A Child-Focused Approach To Using Protective And Risk Factors In Youth Crime Prevention
Title: Rethinking Prevention: A Child-Focused
Approach To Using Protective And Risk Factors In Youth
Crime Prevention
Author: Kevin Wong
Series: Nacro Community Safety Practice Briefings
Number of pages: 4
Date published: February 2003
This briefing, published to coincide with a Nacro conference on youth crime prevention taking place in March 2003, summarises risk factors and protective factors for young people's involvement in crime, and indicates the key points at which interventions will be most effective
Setting Up Neighbourhood Community Safety Projects: A Summary
Title: Setting Up Neighbourhood Community
Safety Projects: A Summary
Author: Sam Wright
Series: Nacro Community Safety Practice Briefings
Number of pages: 2
Date published: February 2003
The short-term, project basis of most community safety work has implications for the way in which crime prevention is developed in the UK. Nacro will be publishing a briefing on this subject in April 2003; this summary examines some methods that projects have developed for coping with the challenges that they have faced.
Download
Setting Up Neighbourhood Community Safety Projects: A
Summary
PDF 40Kb
Merging And Motivating: Research Into The Working Relationship Of DATs And CDRPs
Title: Merging And Motivating: Research Into
The Working Relationship Of DATs And CDRPs
Author: Jim McManus
Series: Nacro Community Safety Practice Briefings
Number of pages: 2
Date published: February 2003
Section 97 (3) of the Police Reform Act 2002 gave effect to the government's intentions to bring Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) and Drugs Action Teams (DATs) more closely together, through either merger or closer working relationships. Nacro's research asked members of CDRPs and DATs about their needs, perspectives and activities in preparing for working more closely together. The full report will be published later this year; this summary presents the key findings and suggests some key themes for the future.
Download
Merging And Motivating: Research Into The Working
Relationship Of DATs And CDRPs
PDF 39Kb
Last update: 08/09/04