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Edition 27 - April 2004

ICPC launches the first phase of its redesigned website.
Summary of the Conference: Costs of Crime and Crime Prevention, Helsinki, Finland.
News items include: Reports on Juvenile Justice Reforms in England and Wales and upcoming events in prevention.

Proceedings from ICPC’s sub-regional seminar on delinquency prevention and community safety in Dakar on January 22-24, 2004, funded by Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie. A Final Declaration is included.Presentation of the Hungarian Crime Prevention Strategy.
An article on Crime Prevention and Human Security: a United Nations Perspective . A lecture given by Jan Van Dijk , Officer-in-Charge , Human Security Branch , Division for Operations at the Hungarian Embassy in Vienna on February 25, 2004 on the Hungarian Crime Prevention Strategy.
Description of an upcoming conference organised by the city of Angers and the European Forum for Urban safety on the theme of “Conflict Regulation and Mediation in the European cities” in May 2004.

A summary of ICPC's Third Annual Colloquium on Cities, Urban Renewal and Crime Prevention which took place in Pretoria, South Africa on 24th November 2003. Presentations made by main speakers are included in the summary of proceedings
Publications and events related to urban renewal and crime prevention.
A brief description of a new local crime prevention toolkit designed for local authorities in South Africa. This toolkit is a partnership initiative led by the CSIR Crime Prevention Centre with the NGO UMAC, the South African Police Service and Business Against Crime.

A message from Terrance Hunsley, Director General, ICPC. Mr Hunsley outlines several new initiatives in the ICPC 2004-2006 work program.
Other key events described include: Africities Summit: Thematic Session on Urban Safety and Security, South African Crime Prevention Report 2003, and the International Seminar on School Safety and Security.

Women in Cities International call for nominations for the Women’s Safety Awards 2004. The awards are designed to promote good practices and policies relating to women’s safety and municipal gender-based policies in crime prevention.
News items featuring the State of the World’s Children, events in Canada, and a Campaign on Children in Prison.

A focus on Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCI). Includes an article written by Olivier Barchechat, Research Analyst, ICPC on the historical development and methodological underpinnings of CCI’s, CCI examples and evaluations, links to relevant websites, and a list of recent reports.
News items featuring: Women in Cities International, the French Observatory of Delinquency, French Urban Policy, and Quebec’s Week of Prevention.

An examination of developments relating to crime prevention policies and practice among indigenous communities. Also featured in this edition: ICPC’s recent comparative review of policy and practice in four countries with similar histories of colonization: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.
An Interview with Mr. Ed Buller, Director of the Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit (ACPU), Solicitor General Canada.
News items featuring the Weiler award to Howard Sapers, and a description of Safe Communities Weekly News.

A summary of ICPC's recent mission to South America.
A report on Chile’s Plan Comuna Segura Compromiso Cien program implemented by the Ministry of the Interior.
Some main news items include: an introduction on the Quebec Observatory Project, a description of ICPC’s Third Annual Colloquium, and the Dubai International Crime Prevention Awards.

This issue includes an article written by Laura Capobianco, Research Analyst, ICPC, on crime prevention and communication strategies focusing predominantly on the field of communication for social change. Other features include an interview with Mohammad Waseem, Director of Interactive Resource Centre in Pakistan, an article on Strategies to Combat Gender based Violence in Nepal, links to a series of practices, tools, and training in the field, and an article on public education campaigns in an international context.

A focus on recent developments in crime prevention policy and practice in Australia. ICPC provides a policy description Australia’s whole-of-government approach in prevention and community safety.
Australia’s country profile, an article on the Australian Institute of Criminology, and a list of relevant crime prevention publications from Australia.
A list of upcoming events in Australia.