NCJ Number
150130
Date Published
1994
Length
38 pages
Annotation
This second of two Crime Prevention Unit papers that arose from a study of the structures and organizational arrangements for the local delivery of crime prevention focuses on the relationships that develop in the variety of interagency crime prevention groups reviewed.
Abstract
The report is based on information collected during discussions or interviews with agency representatives and other participants in the various multiagency crime- prevention groups and projects that authors have investigated during the research. The study found that relations between particular agencies involved in multiagency crime prevention are complicated; seldom static; and influenced by a variety of institutional, individual, and local/historical factors. These relations and the factors that shape them can also vary vertically; a spirit of cooperation among representatives on a strategic-level, multiagency, crime-prevention group might coexist with acrimonious relations at line-worker levels. The role played by the crime-prevention coordinator or by the chair of the relevant multiagency group is crucial in generating productive interagency relations. Other topics discussed are the composition and functioning of multiagency crime- prevention groups, forms of agency participation, and communication within agencies. A listing of areas or multiagency crime-prevention projects visited, 13 references, and a listing of the 52 publications in the Police Research Group Crime Prevention Unit Series