Community Safety and Crime Prevention Knowledge Base

The Knowledge base consists of five main components:

• Policies/Strategies- Here you will find links to  national crime prevention and related community safety policies and strategies, and national organisations specializing in crime prevention research in various countries.
  
  
• Indicators on crime prevention and community safety- Here you will find indicators on basic demographics, general development, crime,victimization, criminal justice, and risk and protective factors for various countries.
  
  
• Practices- Here you will find good practice projects that share ideas for action. They tell you what people are doing, illustrate "ways of working", and describe what communities have learned from their experience and how it made a difference. They provide inspiration and show what can be done.
  
  
• Relevant documentation- Here you will find our Resource Centre which includes key documents and reports which have informed crime prevention policy and practice (national to local), academic articles, reviews, training guides and manuals, etc.
  
  
• Tools- Here you will find concrete tools to assist in strategic action towards community safety and crime prevention.  These include: links to International declarations and conventions, best practice websites, crime mapping tools, toolkits and guides.