Crime Prevention Planning - A Fieldwork Aproach to Regional and Local Case Studies (From Plotting and Planning, P 232-245, 1980, William Clifford, ed. - See NCJ-74668)

• NCJ Number: 74680
• Author(s): J Marjoram
• Date Published: 1980
• Length: 14 pages
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: Australia

Annotation

The status of crime prevention planning in Australia at the national, regional, and local levels is illustrated with case histories of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas studied by criminology students.

Abstract

The participants in a crime prevention planning course were provided with an introduction to planning and a practical insight into the possible application of crime prevention concepts and techniques to economic, social, and physical planning at various jurisdictional levels by doing actual fieldwork. Five fieldwork areas, including four growth centers in New South Wales and Victoria, were chosen as typifying metropolitan and nonmetropolitan growth centers and because local or regional planning authorities and criminal justice services were operating there. Each locality also had active community groups concerned with local or regional social issues. The case studies in question indicate that crime prevention planning at the urban and regional levels in Australia is still at an embryonic stage, although city and regional planning is impressive. This lack of formal crime prevention planning is surprising in view of the concern with crime and related problems frequently voiced by politicians, academics, decisionmakers, and the public at large. The tendency to regard each urban problem (e.g., housing, mass transportation, poverty, pollution, crime) in isolation and the lack of research into urban crime patterns are cited among the factors that have hitherto delayed planning and the implementation of crime prevention strategies. Endnotes include 9 bibliographic references.