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4 results foundAuthor: SQW Consulting Title: The Contribution of Nieghbourhood Management to Cleaner and Safer Neighbourhoods Summary: This report assesses the contribution the Round 1 Pathfinders made to improving community safty and environmental conditions. These areas have generally experienced an improvement in resident perceptions of community safety and environmental conditions over the period 2003-2006. This was a period when the Pathfinders were particularly active in exercising their neighbourhood management role. This report considers the evidence on whether the Pathfinders contributed to the improved safer and clearner outcomes and, if so, in what ways. Details: London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2007. 69p. Source: Internet Resource: Research Report 36: Accessed February 11, 2011 at: http://www.sqw.co.uk/nme/downloads/Research_Report_36-NM_safer_&_cleaner.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.sqw.co.uk/nme/downloads/Research_Report_36-NM_safer_&_cleaner.pdf Shelf Number: 107694 Keywords: Community SafetyNeighborhood DisorderNeighborhoods and Crime (U.K.) |
Author: 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: Ipsos MORI (London) Title: National Study of Neighbourhood Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour - Technical Report Summary: In 2005, Ipsos MORI was commissioned by the Audit Commission to conduct a survey to assess the experiences of households about neighbourhood crime and anti-social behaviour. The survey provided research data for the Audit Commission's national study of how public services and local people are working together to achieve community safety at a neighbourhood level. The survey was designed to provide details of what influences local residents' perceptions of crime, anti-social behaviour, personal safety, and reassurance. Details: London: Ipsos MORI, 2005. 47p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 20, 2012 at http://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Archive/Polls/auditcommission-techeport.pdf Year: 2005 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Archive/Polls/auditcommission-techeport.pdf Shelf Number: 126378 Keywords: Anti-Social Behavior (U.K.)Neighborhoods and Crime (U.K.)Public Opinion (U.K.)Public Opinion Surveys (U.K.) |
Author: Barnsley, Ken Title: Report to Salford SRB 5 Executive. Integrating and Sustaining Communities Salford's SRB 5 Final Programme Evaluation Summary: This document presents Quaternion's evaluation of the Salford SRB Round 5 Programme, Integrating and Sustaining Communities. The overall purpose of the evaluation was to look at the initial conditions of the area, covering the issues the programme set out to tackle; the schemes, objectives and strategy; an analysis of the outputs and outcomes of the programme; the process of regeneration and neighbourhood renewal; the overall achievements of the scheme and the main lessons learned that can be taken forward for future regeneration in Salford. The programme aimed to target Seedley and Langworthy and to address economic and social needs across Salford. At the time of the bid Seedley and Langworthy was a small residential area with a concentration of 3000 or so terraced houses, with significant problems of decline in the housing market, high levels of unemployment, high crime and anti-social behaviour. Other parts of inner city Salford experience similar issues in terms of high levels of unemployment, poor educational attainment and high levels of social exclusion and poverty; these areas being targets for the Social Inclusion programme. In addition to these issues there was a need to provide support to local businesses and ensure that people from deprived communities were able to benefit from job opportunities in Salford and the surrounding labour market; issues that were tackled through the Economic Development Programme. The programme had five strategic objectives and achieved most of the significant outcomes it aimed for in 1999: - Reducing unemployment and increasing business growth, improving educational attainment as the contribution to SO1: Enhancing Employment Education and Skills - There was a reduction in poverty across the City and positive impacts on communities experiencing exclusion as the contribution to SO2 Tackling Social Exclusion - The programme set about and achieved the start of sustainable regeneration in Seedley and Langworthy, introduced new methods of managing the housing stock and innovative approaches to improving the environment for SO3: Sustainable physical regeneration - It assisted in the stabilisation of the housing market in Seedley and Langworthy and helped businesses to grow and invest as part of SO4: Economic Growth - It increased the confidence to report crime and reduced both crime and the fear of crime as its contribution to SO5: Improving Community Safety In addition to making progress towards the outcomes, the programme more than achieved in terms of target outputs: with more than twice as many jobs created as set out in the bid; many more community and voluntary organisations supported; almost 250 new businesses established and thriving and many more people than anticipated benefiting from community safety initiatives. Some of the most dynamic impacts and achievements have been realised in Seedley and Langworthy and key stakeholders cited improvements to the physical fabric of the area in terms of the housing and environment and equally important, improvements in community spirit and the involvement of local people in their area. Details: Manchester, UK: QUARTERNION, 2007. 155p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 10, 2014 at: http://www.salford.gov.uk/d/srb5-evaluation1.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.salford.gov.uk/d/srb5-evaluation1.pdf Shelf Number: 134310 Keywords: Community SafetyCrime PreventionNeighborhoods and Crime (U.K.)Socioeconomic Conditions and CrimeUrban Neighborhoods |