Publications

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: 

Australian Institute of Criminology (2003). Australian crime facts and figures 2003, Canberra: [The Author].

Subjects: Australia; Statistics; Motor vehicle theft; Theft; Homicide; Assault; Sexual assault; Robbery; Fraud; Cybercrime; Offenders; Courts; Prison population; Justice expenditure; Police; Drug related crime.

Balan, A. & Motataianu, M. (2002). Statistic year-book = Annuaire statistique 2002, Jilava: Romania Ministry of Justice, General Division for Prisons.

Subjects: Romania; Statistics; Prison system; Prison staff; Prison population.

Briggs, F., Broadhurst, D. & Hawkins, R. (2004). Violence, threats and intimidation in the lives of professionals whose work involves children (Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice; no 273, February 2004), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Subjects: Australia; Child protection workers; Violence; Threats; Intimidation.

Direction centrale de la police judiciaire, Service central d’étude de la délinquance (2002). Crimes et délits constatés en France en 2002 par les services de police et les unités de gendarmerie [Document électronique]: Chiffres définitifs, Paris : Ministère de la Sécurité Intérieure et des Libertés Locales, Direction Générale de la Police Nationale. 

Sujets : France; Statistiques; Vols; Cambriolages; Crimes économiques; Crimes contre la personne; Homicide; Viol; Harcèlement sexuel; Escroquerie; Contrefaçon; Crimes reliés à la drogue.

Donzelot, J. & Wyvekens, A. (2004). La magistrature sociale: Enquête sur les politiques locales de sécurité (La sécurité aujourd'hui), Paris : La Documentation française.

Sujets : France; Sécurité urbaine; Politiques locales de sécurité; Groupes locaux de traitement de la délinquance; Contrats locaux de sécurité; Police de proximité; Community policing.

Nicholas, S. & Walker, A. (Eds.) (2004). Crime in England and Wales 2002/2003: Supplementary volume 2: Crime, disorder and the criminal justice system - public attitudes and perceptions (Home Office Statistical Bulletin; 02/04), London: Home Office.

Subjects: England and Wales; Crime statistics; Criminal justice system; Public attitudes towards policing; Fear of crime; Antisocial behaviour; Disorder.

Povey, D. (Ed.) (2004). Crime in England and Wales 2002/2003: Supplementary volume 1: Homicide and gun crime (Home Office Statistical Bulletin; 01/04), London: Home Office.

Subjects: England and Wales; Crime statistics; Homicide; Gun related crime; Robbery.

Silver, W, Mihorean, K. & Taylor-Butts, A. (2004). Les crimes motivés par la haine au Canada (Juristat; Vol.24, no 4), Ottawa: Statistique Canada.

Sujets : Canada; Statistiques; Crimes haineux.

White, R. (2004). Police and community responses to youth gangs (Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice; no 274, March 2004), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Subjects: Australia; Youth gangs; Police intervention; Curfews; Anti-loitering laws; Community-based responses.

Journals:

(2004). British Journal of criminology (Vol.44, no 3, May 2004), Oxford : Oxford University Press.

"Gang membership, drugs and crime in the UK".
"Women’s violence to men in intimate relationships: Working on a puzzle".
"Shame, rage and racist violence".
"Leaving a stain upon silence: Contemporary criminology and the politics of dissent".
"Children from good homes: Moral panics about middle-class delinquency".
"Profiles of crime recruitment: Changing patterns over time".
"The measurement of crime prevention intensity and its impact on levels of crime".

(2004), Criminal justice: The international journal of policy and practice (Vol.4, no 1, February 2004), London: SAGE Publications.

"The greening and governance of crime control".
"Beyond belief? "
"Community policing in Hong King: Transplanting a questionable model".
"Protecting dangerous offenders from the community: The application of protective sentencing laws in Victoria".

American Society of Criminology (2003). Criminology & Public Policy (Vol.3, no 2, March 2004), New York: [The Author].

"Homeless shelter use and reincarnation following prison release".
"A roof is not enough: Successful prisoner reintegration requires experimentation and collaboration".
"Research and relevance: Lessons from the past, thoughts for the future".
"Poverty, state capital, and recidivism among women offenders".
"Employment counceling, housing assistance… And Aunt Yolanda?: How strengthening families’ social capital can reduce recidivism".
"Sustaining problem-solving capacity in collaborative networks".
"Through a glass darkly: We need a better read on problem-solving capacity".
"Have our methods to study collaboration outpaced our methods to sustain collaboration?"
"Assessing the effects of mass incarceration on informal social control communities".
"Mass incarceration: Who pays the price for criminal offending? "
"The challenge of mass incarceration".