Crime Reduction Websites

From the United States

	A national strategy to reduce gun violence
	The Boston Gun Project (a "Best Practice" program) ... one study's findings
	The Boston Strategy to Reduce Youth Violence
	The National Crime Prevention Council's strategy for using state law and ordinances to reduce gang activity.
	Gang Prevention Through Community Intervention With High-Risk Youth
	Crime Prevention articles from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service
	Neighborhood crime prevention and safety
	Crime Prevention publications online

From the United Kingdom (England)

	Crime Reduction efforts in the United Kingdom
	Crime Reduction Tool Kits from the United Kingdom
	*Daily Urban Crime and Disorder - Is There a Simple Solution?*

Among the reduction measures still needed as concerns those in lock-up or being released back into the community:

1. The most basic measures necessary to encourage a law-abiding life on release are not being taken in all cases: particularly getting prisoners off drugs and providing sufficient basic and vocational skills.

2. Efforts to reform young offenders, where hopes for reform must be the highest, are particularly inadequate. Drug treatment has often not available when needed and (vocational) training courses begun while confined were often not continued in the community upon release from confinement.

3. Prisoners continue to be discharged without any sustained supervision to discourage them from resuming old habits.

Paraphrased from Crime Reduction Factsheet: How Can We Reduce Reoffending by Known Criminals - The Overseas (U.S.A.) Evidence, by David G. Green as found at: http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/CrimeReductionFactsheet.pdf

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