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2 results foundAuthor: Canada. Institute for the Prevention of Crime, University of Ottawa. Title: Making Cities Safer: Canadian Strategies and Practices Summary: Municipalities have a key role to play in reducing crime and enhancing community safety. This report examines themes and challenges facing 14 municipalities in Canada in their efforts to implement and sustain evidence-based community safety and crime prevention initiatives. It also identifies guiding principles for all orders of government that will assist municipalities in these efforts. In 2006, the Institute for the Prevention of Crime (IPC) at the University of Ottawa invited the mayors of 14 municipalities to delegate a representative to join the Municipal Network on Crime Prevention. The Network currently includes Vancouver, Surrey, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Waterloo Region, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, and Halifax. The Municipal Network exists to share knowledge and experience that will help strengthen the capacity of Canadian municipalities to reduce crime and enhance community safety. It is one component of Harnessing Knowledge for Crime Prevention, a project funded through the National Crime Prevention Centre at the Ministry of Public Safety Canada. In order to better understand municipal involvement in community safety and crime prevention in Canadian cities, IPC conducted in-depth consultations with members of the Municipal Network within the following framework: past involvement of the municipality in crime prevention initiatives/programs; current problems and challenges related to delinquency, violence, and safety in the municipality; strategic importance of safety and crime prevention within the municipality; current municipal safety and crime prevention initiatives and programs; and, challenges for the future. Based on an analysis of the information gathered through the consultations as well as the examination of municipally-based crime prevention initiatives at the international level, the Municipal Network has identified a set of guiding principles that will enhance efforts to reduce crime and victimization and improve community safety. A major challenge to implementing and sustaining coordinated initiatives that was identified in this review is the lack of coordination among levels of government in setting priorities and funding programs that target root causes of crime. Details: Ottawa, Canada: Institute for the Prevention of Crime, University of Ottawa, 2008. 71p. Source: Number 2: Internet Resource: Accessed February 17, 2012 at http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/ipc/eng/documents/IPC_MR2-Eng.pdf Year: 2008 Country: Canada URL: http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/ipc/eng/documents/IPC_MR2-Eng.pdf Shelf Number: 124166 Keywords: Community Safety (Canada)Crime Prevention ProgramsCriminal Justice Administration |
Author: Bania, Melanie L. Title: New Ways of Working? Crime Prevention and Community Safety within Ottawa's Community Development Framework Summary: Over the past few decades, there has been a shift in crime control discourses, from an almost exclusive focus on traditional criminal justice objectives and practices, to attention to ‘community’ and a range of strategies that seek to prevent crime and increase safety. Overall, evaluations of the community mobilization approach to crime prevention and safety conclude that these initiatives have generally demonstrated limited long-term impacts on ‘crime’ and safety at the local level. Through the ‘what works’ lens, the limits of the approach have typically been attributed to implementation challenges related to outreach and mobilization, and inadequate resourcing. Through a more critical lens, using studies on governmentality as a starting point, this study examines the mechanisms through which crime prevention and community safety became thinkable as sites of governance in Canada, and more specifically within the Community Development Framework (CDF) in Ottawa (ON). To this end, I conducted an ethnography using a triangulation of data collection methods, including extensive fieldwork and direct participant observation within the CDF. The findings of this ethnography describe in detail how the CDF emerged and unfolded (from 2008 to 2010) from a variety of perspectives. These findings show that the CDF encountered a number of common challenges associated with program implementation and community-based evaluation. However, the lack of progress made towards adhering to CDF principles and reaching CDF goals cannot be reduced to these failures alone. The CDF highlights the importance of locating the community approach to crime prevention within its wider socio-political context, and of paying attention to its numerous ‘messy actualities’. These include the dynamics and repercussions of: governing at a distance and of the dispersal of social control; the neoliberal creation and responsibilization of choice-makers; relations of power, knowledge and the nature of expertise; the messiness of the notion of ‘community’; bureaucratic imperatives and professional interests; the words versus deeds of community policing; and processes relevant to resistance within current arrangements. Details: Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2012. 367p. Source: Doctoral Thesis: Internet Resource: Accessed March 13, 2012 at http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/fr/bitstream/handle/10393/20723/Bania_Melanie_L._2012_thesis.pdf?sequence=1 Year: 2012 Country: Canada URL: http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/fr/bitstream/handle/10393/20723/Bania_Melanie_L._2012_thesis.pdf?sequence=1 Shelf Number: 124527 Keywords: Community Safety (Canada)Crime Prevention (Canada)Ethnography |