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3 results foundAuthor: Shepherd, Peter James Title: Neighbourhood profiling and classification for community safety Summary: This thesis presents a new neighbourhood classification, the Leeds Classification for Community Safety (LCCS). This is used to demonstrate the usefulness of area classifications for providing area context information to crime analysis, and for identifying neighbourhoods with atypical crime profiles - given their neighbourhood type. The work can be seen as a development of the classifications produced by the Home Office for comparative performance purposes, but at a smaller, neighbourhood scale. There has been a recent trend among practitioners to use commercial geodemographic products for this task, but these tools are primarily designed for consumer segmentation applications and little is revealed about the way in which these classifications are constructed, or their ability to discriminate geographies of crime and disorder. The research presented in this thesis discusses critically both these issues. The research draws upon academic and policy literature on the geography of crime, environmental criminology and community safety policy, and describes the types of task undertaken by community safety analysts. Existing knowledge about the causes and motivations for crime are used to select variables from new national and local sources. The final partition was created using the fuzzy c-means clustering technique, but alternative techniques were also employed and levels of agreement between the different results were measured. The design process also involved measuring the ability of different partitions to discriminate neighbourhood crime rates. Numeric comparisons were made between the LCCS and existing general purpose classifications, and these show that the task-specific approach was better overall at discriminating crime rates. Practical applications of the LCCS are also demonstrated using recorded crime data for criminal damage and domestic burglary. Furthermore, variations in response to burglary target hardening are analysed using the LCCS, and the cost benefit to neighbourhoods of different types is shown. These practical demonstrations of the LCCS go to reinforce the assertion that area classification can be useful, practical tool to aid in the analysis and understanding of spatial patterns of crime and disorder. Details: Leeds, UK: The University of Leeds, 2006. 374p. Source: PhD Thesis: Internet Resource: Accessed March 23, 2012 at http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/374/1/uk_bl_ethos_436430.pdf Year: 2006 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/374/1/uk_bl_ethos_436430.pdf Shelf Number: 124648 Keywords: Community Safety (U.K.)Neighborhoods and Crime (U.K.) |
Author: Baird, Vera Title: Everywoman Safe Everywhere: Labour's Commission on Women's Safety Summary: Everywoman Safe Everywhere, Labour’s Commission on Women’s Safety was established in November 2011 in response to concerns that, not only were government policies disproportionately impacting upon women economically, but may be risking their safety too. In the last three months the Commission has held 14 evidence gathering sessions in different towns and cities; has engaged with more than 100 organisations and experts, and received upwards of 160 submissions from women and men around the country on the status of services which safeguard the personal safety of women. We have also analysed up-to-date background literature. A wide range and breadth of issues were discussed, but a number of consistent factors were repeatedly raised. In the course of these discussions, participants have raised many distinct and diverse concerns, from the provision of services for those who are victims of rape or domestic violence, to the impact of cuts in street lighting, station staffing and car parking charges on how safe women feel. Alongside identifying specific decisions taken by the Government that put them at risk, women also spoke of longstanding inequalities and their frustration at a lack of progress in addressing these. In particular, the Commission heard repeatedly from women of all ages of the discomfort they feel about the way in which women are portrayed in modern culture, which many felt made them more vulnerable to harassment and violence, as well as causing them to feel restricted in their everyday lives. This report seeks to capture these discussions and identify the increasing risks to the personal safety of women in Britain. It paints a compelling picture of the cumulative impact of changes to the law and public service provision which are undermining recent progress in keeping women safe in Britain, as well as a failure to deal with both new and old forms of inequality which scar the lives of too many in our society. Just as there is now overwhelming evidence that women have borne the brunt of the economic recession, so too it is clear that the services designed to keep them safe are now also under threat too. This document sets out the evidence the Commission has gathered in just the first three months, along with the growing signs of serious concerns across the country. But we are clear that more research, evidence and analysis is needed. Details: London: Labour Party, 2012. 70p. Source: First Interim Report: Internet Resource: Accessed March 23, 2012 at http://www.labour.org.uk/uploads/455bf616-f048-b184-e903-c9629a67745a.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.labour.org.uk/uploads/455bf616-f048-b184-e903-c9629a67745a.pdf Shelf Number: 124721 Keywords: Community Safety (U.K.)Criminal Justice Policy (U.K.)Female Victims (U.K.)Victims Services (U.K.) |
Author: Edwards, Adam Title: Evaluation of the Cardiff Night-TIme Economy Co-ordinator (NTEC) Post Summary: This evaluation of the role of Night-Time Economy Co-ordinator (NTEC) for Cardiff was a requirement of funding for the NTEC post, which Cardiff Community Safety Partnership (subsequently, ‘Safer Capital’) received from the Home Office Tackling Violent Crime Programme (HOTVCP). This post was funded out of this programme in recognition of the particular problems of alcohol-related violence against the person and public disorder that have accompanied the rapid expansion of the night-time economy in Cardiff and the pressures this has placed on public health and safety in the City. The regulatory deficit created by this expansion, given the limited police resources available for controlling the consumption of alcohol, provided the initial rationale for the NTEC post. The post and the evaluation commenced in December 2007, the period of funding for the NTEC post from the HOTVCP ran until March 2009. This evaluation covers activities undertaken by the post-holder in seeking to address the regulatory deficit during this period. The evaluation had an action-research element built into it, insofar as the evaluator was invited to participate in the steering group for work undertaken by the NTEC and to help define the core objectives of this post for the duration of its funding from the HOTVCP. Four objectives were agreed amongst the steering group, which also included representatives of the regional Home Office who had commissioned both the NTEC post and its evaluation. They were: 1. Creation of a unified measurement of performance and enforcement arm for the regulation of the night-time economy (NTE); 2. Engage local authority service areas with an identifiable role in preventing or reducing violence in the NTE; 3. Establish a late-night transport system that is easily accessible and clearly sign-posted for clientele; and, 4. Enhance the surveillance capacity for reducing violence in the NTE. The conjecture underpinning these four objectives was that the regulatory deficit confronting Safer Capital could be reduced in a relatively short period of time by improving intelligence and surveillance on the concentration of violence and disorder in particular places (‘hot-spots’) and times (‘hot-times’) and by targeting measures to reduce the situational opportunities for such behaviour in these places and at these times by tasking all those agencies thought to have a role in situational crime reduction. It was agreed that the principal focus of the evaluation would be on the process of defining such objectives and assessing the progress of the NTEC in putting them into action; specifically, the possibilities for, and barriers to, co-ordinating the multiplicity of agencies whom the steering group believed could make a contribution to the reduction of violence and disorder in Cardiff’s NTE. As such, the focus of this evaluation has not been on the outcomes of multi-agency interventions on patterns of alcohol-related violence and disorder, although some inferences about this are included in Section 6 (and Appendices three, four and five). Details: Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, Cardiff University, 2012. 80p. Source: Working Paper 133: Internet Resource: Accessed August 14, 2012 at http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp133.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp133.pdf Shelf Number: 126029 Keywords: Alcohol Related Crime, Disorder (U.K.)Community Safety (U.K.)Evaluative Studies (U.K.)Violence Prevention (U.K.) |