Related Reading

Create Stronger Communities

• 07. PPP2 Conference - Building Communities - Workshop Series 1, Papers
  - Communities are built by people through partnerships in different locations. Papers from 10 workshops on the theme of Building Communities, presented at the PPP2 Conference, Sydney, 29-30 April 2003
• A Guide to setting up a Community Garden
  - Practical advice on how to set up a community garden developed by the Community Gardens Network - Russ Grayson and Fiona Campbell
• Cabramatta CityWatch Council
  - The Cabramatta CityWatch project encourages local community members from Cabramatta to create interest groups that focus on issues of concern within their local community.
• Children and Young People's Safety and Wellbeing
  - The Commission for Children and Young People has released a series of topical and interesting information sheets related to children and young people's safety and wellbeing.
• Committee Kit - A Guide to Running Events for Young People
  - Prepared by the Independent Entertainment Network for Young People in NSW, this kit outlines tasks you will need to think about from booking venues, licensing and security, to all aspects of event promotion and production.
• Crime Prevention Planning
  - Examples of NSW Crime Prevention Plans and resources produced by the NSW Crime Prevention Division to guide the development of local plans.
• Crime Reduction Toolkits
  - The UK Government's Crime Prevention Strategy includes a series of 22 online Toolkits designed to help all those involved in crime reduction to work as effectively as possible.
• Guidelines for using Closed Circuit Television in Public Places.
  - A practical gude to implementing CCTV in local communities as a part of a multi-pronged strategy for reducing crime.
• Jungle Patrol Community Safety Inc. Nimbin Northern NSW
  - The Jungle Patrol is a non-profit community organisation, focused on crime prevention, community safety, generation of local employment and community ownership.
• Pathways to Prevention - Developmental and early intervention approaches to crime in Australia - Report
  - A developmental perspective calls for a realistic analysis of any individual's life in its place and time. Only within such a perspective can interventions be directed both to the problems in the person and to the features of that person's social circumstances that encourage crime.
• Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising (US)
  - A Report to the United States Congress, prepared for the National Institute of Justice, on the effectiveness of crime prevention programs.
• Safer by Design – a guide to crime prevention through design practice
  - This publication from Wagga City Council offers a simple guide to the principles of designing places and buildings for the purpose of crime prevention.
• Safer celebrations - a planning guide for event managers in NSW
  - Use this practical, online guide to make sure you cover all legal and safety requirements when planning an event where alcohol will be provided. It is also a useful guide for planning any large event.
• Urban Design Guidelines with Young People in Mind
  - Making public areas youth friendly and more attractive and welcoming for everybody

Understand Your Community

• Community adversity and resilience - Professor Tony Vinson, March 2004
  - This study provides measurement of the concentration of disadvantage according to postcode areas in N.S.W. and Victoria.