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ICPC Documentation Centre

The ICPCs documentation centre gathers over 2800 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 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Recent additions to the ICPC documentation centre:

Reports

Barak, G. (Ed.) (2000). Crime and crime control : A global view (A World of Social Issues), Westport: Greenwood Press.

Subjects: Brazil; China; Germany; Ghana; India; Iran; Navajo Nation; Aboriginal people; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Nigeria; Poland; Russia; Taiwan; United Kingdom; United States; Crime; Crime Prevention, cross-cultural issues; Police; Criminal justice system.

Desjardins, N. & Hotton, T. (2004). Tendances des infractions relatives aux drogues et rôle de l’alcool et des drogues dans la perpétration d’infractions (Juristat; Vol.24, no 1), Ottawa: Statistique Canada.

Sujets : Canada; Statistiques; Crimes reliés à l’alcool; Crimes reliés aux drogues; Violence conjugale; Stratégie antidrogue; Législation.

International Center for Research on Women (2001). Domestic violence in India II [Electronic document]: Exploring strategies, promoting dialogue (ICRW Information Bulletin; January 2001), Washington: [The Author].
http://www.icrw.org/docs/DV_India2_InfoBull_12001.pdf

Subjects: India; Domestic violence USE Family violence; Women’s safety.

Jaspard, M., Brown, E, & Condon, S. [et al.] (2002). Les violences envers les femmes en France: Une enquête nationale (Choix des femmes), Paris: La documentation française.

Sujets: France; Enquête nationale des violences envers les femmes en France; Violence conjugale; Violence au travail; Agressions sexuelles.

Makkai, T. & Payne, J. (2003). Drugs and crime: A study of incarcerated male offenders (Research and Public Policy Series; no 52), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Subjects: Australia; Drug related crime; Property crime; Violent crime; Offenders; Risk factors; Alcohol; Indigenous people; Homicide.

Mouzos, J. & Venditto, J. (2003). Contract killings in Australia (Research and Public Policy Series; no 53), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Subjects: Australia; Contract killing; Drugs; Organised crime.

National Crime Prevention Council (2003). School safety and security toolkit: A guide for parents, schools, and community, Washington: [The Author].

Subjects: United States; School safety; Toolkit.

Office for Standards in Education (2003). Bullying [Electronic document]: Effective action in secondary schools, London: [The Author].
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/docs/3235.pdf

Subjects: England; Bullying; Good practice; Peer mentoring; School safety.

Safe Schools Task Force (2001). Great ideas for safe schools [Electronic document]: A collection of safe schools programs and strategies from the Attorney General and State Superintendant of Public Instruction Safe Schools Task Force, Sacramento: California Attorney’s General Office, Crime and Violence Prevention Center.
http://www.safestate.org/shop/files/GreatIdeas_SafeSchools.pdf

Subjects: United States; California; School safety; Prevention programs.

Smink, J. & Shargel, F.P. (Eds.) (2004). Helping students graduate: A strategic approach to dropout prevention, New York: Eye on Education.

Subjects: United States; Dropouts; Risk factors; Motivation in education; School improvement programs; Program evaluation; Good practices; Early intervention; Drugs; Crime.

Walmsley, R. (2003). Further developments in the prison systems of Central and Eastern Europe: Achievements, problems, and objectives (Publications Series; no 41), Helsinki: HEUNI.

Subjects: Albania; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Georgia; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia; Moldova; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Slovakia; Slovenia; Ukraine; Yugoslavia; Kosovo; Prison systems; Legislation; Prison population.

Journals

(2003). Police & Society: An Interdisciplinary Israeli Journal of Law Enforcement & Criminology (Issue no 7), Israel National Police, Community & Civil Guard Department.

The articles presented are:

“Special issue: Policing a multicultural society”.
“Policing the cultural kaleidoscope: Recent Canadian experience”.
“Police race relations in England and Wales: Theory, policy, and practice”.
“Policing the plight of Indigenous Australians: Past conflicts and present challenges”.
“Policing violence against minority women in multicultural societies: Community and the “politics of exclusion”.
“Contracts with the police: Patterns and meanings in a multicultural realm”.
“Multicultural context, crime, and policing in Germany”.
“Policing in diverse and multicultural society: The South African case”.
“The emerging paradigm for policing multiethnic societies: Glimpses from the American experience”.

Institute for Security Studies (2003). SA Crime Quarterly (No.6, December 2003), Pretoria: [The Author].

The articles presented are:

“Crime statistics 2002/03”.
“Investigation of farm attacks”.
“Sector policing and community policing forums”.
“Private security via road closures”.
“Social crime prevention in SA”.
“Unfit to own a firearm: The role of the courts”.
“Has methamphetamine hit the Cape Flats? ”