The handbook of community safety, gender and violence prevention : practical planning tools

Introduction to the issues -- What this book is, and is not -- Challenging the traditional crime and punishment approach -- Developing a new framework for community safety and violence prevention -- Brief outline of the rest of the book -- Defining the problem : the prevalence of violence and insecurity -- Defining community safety and violence -- The prevalence of violence : an overview -- Violence across the life course: -- The relationship between violence and insecurity -- Conclusion : a largely private issue or a public concern? -- Analysing the problem : causes, consequences and prevention of violence -- Root causes of violence and risk/resilience factors -- The consequences of violence -- The prevention of violence -- Conclusion : from analysis to action on violence prevention -- Coordinated community safety : from local to global -- Coordination and the question of scale -- Coordination at the neighbourhood scale -- Coordination at the city scale. Coordination at the national scale -- Coordination at the regional and international scales -- Conclusion : coordination at different scales and the question of good governance -- The process of community safety planning -- Models of community safety planning processes -- Stage one : developing partnerships around a problem -- Stage two : diagnostic tools and community consultation -- Stage three : developing work plans based on a logic framework -- Stage four : implementation and monitoring -- Stage five : evaluation : the hardest part -- Stage six : modification, maintenance and mainstreaming -- The components of community safety -- Early childhood strategies -- School-based interventions -- Community economic development approaches -- Public awareness approaches -- Capacity-building and the question of self-defence -- Service provision : better coordinated and more responsive services -- Safer spaces : spatial planning -- Policing approaches -- Legal and correctional approaches -- Conclusion : a wide menu of community safety strategies -- The future of community safety and violence prevention.