Building Safer Communities

Building Safer Communities
Author: Urbano Fra Paleo
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1607500469

This book is a collection of essays, bringing together seventeen contributions from different disciplines, with various, but complementary points of view, to discuss the directions and key components of risk governance. Some of the many issues of interest to risk scholars addressed in this work include the analysis of proactive approaches to the governance of risk from natural hazards; approaches to broaden the scope of public policies related to the management of risks from natural hazards, including emergency and environmental management, community development and spatial planning.

Building Safer Communities

Building Safer Communities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2012
Genre: Federal aid to law enforcement agencies
ISBN:

SafeGrowth

SafeGrowth
Author: Gregory Saville
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9781977704559

SafeGrowth is a new model for building crime-resistant and vibrant neighborhoods in the 21st Century. This book chronicles how SafeGrowth and methods like CPTED - Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design - turn troubled places back from the brink of crime. This book compiles the results of recent SafeGrowth conferences and project work in high crime neighborhoods and it describes a new theory in city planning and crime prevention. The book includes chapters on urban planning, community development, crime prevention, and new policing strategies. Chapter authors include criminologists, community workers, urban planners, police specialists, and others directly involved in community work and urban design. Chapters also include summaries of recent SafeGrowth Summits, planning and visioning sessions for creating a new path forward. Chapters include: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; Smart Growth planning; livability academies; urban villages and the hub concept; SafeGrowth projects in Saskatoon and Red Deer in Canada and Hollygrove in New Orleans; and the 4 principles of SafeGrowth planning. While the original concept of SafeGrowth was developed by Gregory Saville, the book editor and primary author, other authors expand that original vision and describe a new way to plan and develop cities. The audience for this book includes community development practitioners, urban policy-makers, crime prevention specialists including police, students of urban development and crime prevention, planners, and anyone interested in a new way to create safer and livable neighborhoods.

Guns Down

Guns Down
Author: Igor Volsky
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1620973200

One of Mashable's "17 books every activist should read in 2019" Join the conversation about creating a future with fewer guns and finally make a difference—this "smart, thoughtful, commonsense plan" (Donna Brazile) shows you how Ninety-six people die from guns in America every single day. Twelve thousand Americans are murdered each year. The United States has more mass shootings, gun suicides, and nonfatal gun injuries than any other industrialized country in the world. Gun-safety advocates have tried to solve these problems with incremental changes such as background checks and banning assault style military weapons. They have fallen short. In order to significantly and permanently reduce gun deaths the United States needs a bold new approach: a drastic reduction of the 390 million guns already in circulation and a new movement dedicated to a future with fewer guns. In Guns Down, Igor Volsky tells the story of how he took on the NRA just by using his Twitter account, describes how he found common ground with gun enthusiasts after spending two days shooting guns in the desert, and lays out a blueprint for how citizens can push their governments to reduce the number of guns in circulation and make firearms significantly harder to get. An aggressive licensing and registration initiative, federal and state buybacks of millions of guns, and tighter regulation of the gun industry, the gun lobby, and gun sellers will build safer communities for all. Volsky outlines a New Second Amendment Compact developed with policy experts from across the political spectrum, including bold reforms that have succeeded in reducing gun violence worldwide, and offers a road map for achieving transformative change to increase safety in our communities.

We Keep Us Safe

We Keep Us Safe
Author: Zach Norris
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0807029750

A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of Us vs. Them. By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic, smart investments—meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being, like healthcare and housing, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins. In this book Zach Norris provides a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized, so they can participate fully in life, in society, and in the fabric of our democracy.

No More Police

No More Police
Author: Mariame Kaba
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1620977303

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers “One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist] framework.” —NBCNews.com on Mariame Kaba In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn’t stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens. Centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and highlighting uprisings, campaigns, and community-based projects, No More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence in all its forms are abundant. Part handbook, part road map, No More Police calls on us to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it toward a world where violence is the exception, and safe, well-resourced and thriving communities are the rule.

Community Safety

Community Safety
Author: Roger Ellis Elaine Hogard
Publisher: University of Chester
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2008-02-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 190825873X

A volume of conference papers that brings together the latest thinking in the important area of community safety, with contributions from some of the leading internationally respected academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field. The fifteen chapters are organised under four main themes: data and data gathering regarding community safety; studies of innovations in community safety; partnerships for community safety; and approaches to the evaluation of community safety initiatives and programmes. The book should be useful and stimulating for practitioners, academics and policy makers. Contents: Leadership, Community Safety and Delivery: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Leadership Within a Partnership Context, by Stephen Brookes; Quick but Not Dirty: Rapid Evidence Assessments (REAs) as a Decision Support Tool in Social Policy, by E. Burton, G. Butler, J. Hodgkinson and S. Marshall; Appropriate Complexity: Capturing and Structuring Knowledge from Impact and Process Evaluations of Crime Reduction, Community Safety and Problem-Oriented Policing, by Paul Ekblom; The Trident: A Three-Pronged Method for Evaluating Programmes and Initiatives, by Roger Ellis and Elaine Hogard; Public Perceptions of Static and Redeployable CCTV, by A. Rose, M. Gill, K. Collins and M. Hemming; Hands On or Hands Off?: Central Government's Role in Managing CDRPS, by Mike Hough; Community Intelligence in the Policing of Community Safety, by Martin Innes and Colin Roberts; Crime and Disorder Audits and the Problems of Becoming Too Localised, by R.I.Mawby; Partnerships: Looking to the Future, by Judith Million; No Pain, No Gain: The Safer Derbyshire Research and Information Team Story, by Kevin Pellatt; Defining Deviant Lifestyles: Understanding Anti-Social Behaviour and Problem Drug Use Through Critical Methodologies, by Craig Paterson and Allyson MacVean; Back to the Future: Innovation, Evaluation and Reverse Survival Analysis, by Kate Bowers, Shane Johnson and Ken Pease; What Do We Mean by What Works? ?, by Nick Tilley; 'Safer Homes': An Innovative Approach to Tackling Domestic Burglary, by Jeremy Warren and Graeme Gerrard; Mapping the Fear of Crime A Micro-Approach, by Chris Williams

Building Safer Cities

Building Safer Cities
Author: Alcira Kreimer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery.