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968027
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b722397
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Whitzman, Carolyn.
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| Title & Author
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The handbook of community safety, gender and violence prevention : : practical planning tools /\ Carolyn Whitzman.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Sterling, VA :: Earthscan,, 2008.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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1136553665
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: 1136553703
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: 1136553711
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: 1281752797
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: 1435634616
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: 184407501X
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: 184977305X
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: 9781136553660
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: 9781136553707
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: 9781136553714
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: 9781281752796
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: 9781435634619
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: 9781844075010
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: 9781849773058
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1844075028
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9781844075027
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Box 10. Bogota's integral plan on security and co-existence -- Box 11. Community safety in rural areas: British Columbia Canada and Kadjebi Ghana -- Coordination at the nation scale -- Box 12. Tanzania: an example of local to national up-scaling -- Box 13. New Zealand's top-down approach -- Coordination at the regional scale and international scales -- Box 14. Raising voices in East and Southern Africa -- Conclusion: coordination at various scales and the question of good governance -- The process of community safety planning -- Stage one: deciding on the problem and developing partnerships -- Box 15. Potential partners -- Box 16. Defining the problem and developing leadership in Toronto 1988-1991 -- Stage two: Diagnostic tools and consultation on safety -- Box 17. Victimization surveys: a case study of Papua New Guinea -- Box 18. Victimization surveys in rural British Colombia and Pakistan -- Box 19: Safety audits: what works and what doesn't (Russia, UK, Australia, Canada) -- Stage three: developing work plans based on a logic framework -- Box 20. A logic-based workplan in Cardiff -- Box 21. Questioning appeals to community -- Stage four: implementing work plans -- Stage five: evaluation: the hardest part -- Stage six: modification, maintenance, and mainstreaming -- Box 22. Successive community safety processes: the example of the Toronto Safe City Committee 1990-2007 -- The components of community safety -- Early childhood strategies -- Box 23. Men working with men to become better fathers in Mexico and south africa -- Box 24. the international growth of mother's centres in eastern Europe -- School-based interventions -- Box 25. Community building around schools in Stockholm -- Box 26. A comprehensive violence prevention curriculum in rural Canada -- Community economic development approaches -- Box 27. Generating employment and safety in Durban -- Getting the message out: public awareness -- Capacity building and the question of self-defense -- Service integration -- Box 28. Developing services in Bacolod Philippines -- Safer spaces: spatial policies -- Box 29. Inclusive parks in Toronto and Melbourne -- Policing -- Box 30. Community police stations in Mumbai -- Legal and correctional approaches -- Conclusion: a wide menu of community safety strategies -- Conclusions -- What are the principles of good practice in the field? -- Mainstreaming gender and overcoming the public private divide -- Evaluation and publicizing good practice -- The possible futures of community safety and violence prevention.
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Introduction to the issues -- What this book is, and is not -- Challenging the traditional crime and punishment approach -- Box 1: What are high income and low income countries? -- Developing a new framework for community safety and violence prevention -- Brief outline of the rest of the book -- Defining the problem: the prevalence of violence and insecurity -- Defining community safety and violence -- Box 2: Violence: a lexicon -- The prevalence of violence: an overview -- Box 3. Violence versus crime -- Violence across the life course: -- Childhood 0-14 -- Youth and young adulthood 15-29 -- Adulthood 30-59 -- Old age 60 plus -- Violence and insecurity -- Box 4. A short note on "race" and violence -- Summary: a largely private issue or a public concern? -- Box 5. Violence in a global city: a thought experiment -- Analysing the problem: causes, impacts, and prevention of violence -- Root causes of violence/ risk and resilience factors -- The costs of violence -- The prevention of violence -- Conclusion: from analysis to action on violence prevention -- Coordinated community safety: from local to global -- Coordination and the question of scales -- Box 6. Environmental determinants of health -- Coordination at the neighbourhood scale -- Box 7. Neighbourhood capacity building in Buenos Aires -- Box 8. Reducing crime and violence in a Danish housing estate -- Coordination at the city scale -- Box 9. Community safety begins at home: coordinated intimate partner abuse prevention in Duluth US and London UK.
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| Abstract
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Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century. Both family violence and community violence are rapidly rising in the urbanizing nations of the 'South' and richer nations are also facing increased concern about the health social economic and environmental costs of violence and crime. The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention is the first book to gather together research and examples from a gendered perspective of local regional and international interventions that work to prevent crime violence and insecurity. Case studi.
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Community organization.
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Crime prevention-- Planning.
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Violence-- Prevention.
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Community organization.
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Crime prevention-- Planning.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Law Enforcement.
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Violence-- Prevention.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.32/17
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| LC Classification
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HV7431.W49 2008eb
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