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ICPC Documentation Centre

The ICPCs documentation centre gathers over 3000 documents related to crime prevention. This includes documentation on national prevention policies, diverse initiatives and programs, statistics, reports and other articles on subjects such as violence against women, juvenile delinquency, drugs, and urban security.

The ICPC collection is open to the public from 10 am to 4 pm (Est), Monday-Friday.

Recent additions to the ICPC documentation centre: 

Reports:

Aubin, J. [et al.] (2002). Enquête sociale et de santé auprès des enfants et des adolescents québécois 1999, Québec: Institut de la statistique du Québec.

Sujets : Canada; Québec; Enquête sociale et de santé auprès des enfants et des adolescents québécois; Insécurité; Soutien social; Drogues; Alcool; Violence; Taxage; Violence à l'école; Violence dans les relations amoureuses.

Blak, D. (Ed.) (2004). Crimes against business: A review of victimisation, predictors and prevention (Technical and Background Paper; no 11), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Subjects: Australia; Business crime; Crime cost; Fraud; Workplace violence; Burglary; Vehicle theft; Bribery; Extortion; Corruption; Robbery; Theft; Prevention programs; Small business and crime initiative; The Enschede-Haven project.

The Children's Issues Centre (2004). Developing a more positive school culture to address bullying and improve school relationships - Case studies from two primary schools and one intermediate school, Wellington: The Ministry of Social Development.
http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/publications/sector-policy/positive-school-culture.pdf

Subjects: New Zealand; Bullying; Case studies; Primary school; Intermediate school.

Community Asset Development Consultants (2002). The Barbados national anti-drug plan 2002-2007, Bridgetown: National Council on Substance Abuse.

Subjects: Barbados; National anti-drug strategy; Prevention programs; Program evaluation; National Council on Substance Abuse; Money laundering; Legislation.

Doran, S. (2003). Eyes and ears: The role of neighbourhood wardens (Community safety practice briefing), London: NACRO.
http://www.nacro.org.uk/data/resources/nacro-2004120269.pdf

Subjects: England; Wales; Neighbourhood wardens; Community patrols; Super caretakers; Street wardens; Policing community support officers; Prevention professions.

Fitzgerald, R., Wisener, M. & Savoie, J. (2004). Neighbourhood characteristics and the distribution of crime in Winnipeg (Crime and Justice Research Paper Series; no 4), Ottawa: Statistics Canada.

Subjects: Canada; Winnipeg; Neighbourhood crime statistics.

Hardie, J. & Hobbs, B. (2002). Partners against crime: The role of the corporate sector in tackling crime, London: Institute for Public Policy Research.

Subjects: England; Wales; Corporate social responsibility; Crime prevention; Government policy; Case studies.

Harriott, A. (2002). Crime trends in the Caribbean and responses, Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/barbados/caribbean_report_crime-trends.pdf

Subjects: The Caribbean; Grenada; Dominica; The bahamas; St.Kitts and Nevis; Barbados; Jamaica; Guyana; Trinidad and Tobago; Crime rate; Homicide; Drug related crime; Risk factors; Poverty; Corruption; Crime prevention strategies.

Johnstone, R. & Sarre, R. (2004). Regulation: Enforcement and compliance (Research and Public Policy Series; no 57), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/57/RPP57.pdf

Subjects: Australia; Third party policing; Regulation; Police services; Private security.

Lavoie, F. [et al.] (2001). Facteurs associés à la violence dans les relations amoureuses à l'adolescence - Rapport final (Collection Etudes et analyses; no 19), Montréal : Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la violence familiale et la violence faite aux femmes.

Sujets : Canada; Québec; Violence dans les relations amoureuses VOIR Violence dans les fréquentations; Violence chez les jeunes; Facteurs de risque.

Members of the SEKN research team, by institutional affiliation, Austin, J....[et al.] (2004), Social partnership in Latin America: Lessons drawn from collaborations of businesses and civil society organizations, Cambridge: Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Subjects: Latin America; Brazil; Argentina; Peru; Chile; Colombia; Mexico; Corporate social responsibility; Civil society organisations; Strategic alliances; Social marketing; Partnerships.

Millie, A. & Hough, M. (2004). Assessing the impact of the Reducing Burglary Initiative in Southern England and Wales - 2nd Edition (Home Office Online Report; 42/04), London: Home Office.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/rdsolr4204.pdf

Subjects: England; Wales; Prevention programs; The reducing burglary initiative; Program evaluation; The Southern Consortium outcome evaluation.

Ministère de la Sécurité publique, Direction de la prévention et de la lutte contre la criminalité (2004). La criminalité au Québec: Statistiques 2003, Sainte-Foy : [L'auteur].
http://www.msp.gouv.qc.ca/stats/crimina/2003/criminal/statistiques_criminalite_2003.pdf

Sujets : Canada; Québec; Statistiques; Criminalité; Crimes contre la propriété; Crimes contre la personne; Crimes reliés aux drogues; Vols; Introduction par effraction; Méfaits; Vols de véhicules; Fraude; Agressions sexuelles; Harcèlement criminel; Homicide; Prostitution; Vandalisme; Conduite avec facultés affaiblies.

Ministry of Justice (2005). Community involvement in crime prevention - A national report from Sweden, Stockholm: [The Author].
http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/04/28/62/06fbb00d.pdf

Subjects: Sweden; National crime prevention program; Crime prevention strategies; The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.

Ohlhaussen Research, Inc. (2004). National policy summit: Building private security/public policing partnerships to prevent and respond to terrorism and public disorder, Washington: The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in partnerships with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1355

Subjects: United States; Private security; Public policing; Public private partnerships; Terrorism; Public disorder.

Putt, J., Payne, J. & Milner, L. (2005). Indigenous male offending and substance abuse (Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice; no 293), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Subjects: Australia; Indigenous people; Aboriginal people; Male offenders drug use; Illicit drug market; Drug related crimes.

Richardson, J. (Ed.) (2000). Police and private security: What the future holds (Police Futures Group Study Series; no 1), Ottawa: Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.

Subjects: Canada; Conference papers; Public policing; Private security; Police management.

Simmons, D.A. (2001). Green paper on the Government's proposals for crime reduction, Bridgetown: National Task Force on Crime Prevention.

Subjects: Barbados; Green paper; Crime prevention strategy; Early intervention; School-based programs; Law enforcement; Community policing; Neighbourhood watch; Problem oriented policing; Situational crime prevention; National Council on Substance Abuse; Criminal justice system; Recidivism.

Journals:

The American Society of Criminology (2005). Criminology (Vol. 43, no 1), St. Louis: [The Author].

The articles presented are:

‘Disputes involving youth street gang members: Micro-social contexts’
‘Making delinquents friends: Adult supervision and children’s affiliations’
‘Microanomie: The cognitive foundations of the relationship between anomie and deviance’
‘Psychological, neuropsychological and physiological correlates of serious antisocial behaviour in adolescence: The role of self-control’
‘Adolescent romantic relationships and delinquency involvement’
‘Partisan politics, electoral competition and imprisonment: An analysis of states over time’
‘Criminal propensity, deviant sexual interests and criminal activity of sexual aggressors against women: A comparison of explanatory models’

(2005). Criminal justice: The international journal of policy and practice (Vol. 5, no 1), London: SAGE Publications.

The articles presented are:

‘The usual suspects? Street-life, young people and the police’
‘Why are there no lessons learned from road traffic incidents involving the police?’
‘distentangling the effects of correctional education: Are current policies misguided? An event history analysis’
‘A distant reality: Democratic policing in Argentina and Brazil’

The European Society of Criminology (2005). European journal of criminology (Vol.2, no 2), London: SAGE Publications and The European Society of Criminology.

The articles presented are:

‘Assessing cross-cultural validity of fear of crime measures through comparisons between linguistic communities in Belgium’
‘Violent hypocrisy: Governance and the night-time economy’
‘The other lessons from Ireland? Policing, political violence and policy transfer’
‘Crime, criminal justice and criminology in Greece’