Making Cities Safer: Action Briefs for Municipal Stakeholders is a popular publication for municipal stakeholders such as mayors, city councilors, police chiefs, school board executives and housing leaders. It takes research, international standards and successes and puts them into short action briefs that are easy for decision makers to use to reduce and stop crime, and organise sustainable prevention strategies.
The Province of Alberta, Canada became the first jurisdiction in the world to invest in a sustained and comprehensive strategy to use evidence to reduce crime and respect crime victims’ rights. It has invested $500 million in new money in a combination of smart enforcement, pre-crime treatment programs and social prevention to reduce crime over 3 years.
This task force faced the challenge of high rates of interpersonal violence in South Africa during the Mandela years by recommending ways in the White Paper on Safety and Security for local and regional government to tackle the causes of violence and apply research results to stop violence.
This non-governmental commission replicated the Presidential Commissions in the 1960´s by analyzing the problems of crime and incarceration in the USA. It looked to applying the results of research to halting violence as well as implementing international standards to advance the human rights of victims of crime.
