NCJ Number
83281
Date Published
Unknown
Length
0 pages
Annotation
Representatives of the LEAA-supported Center for Community Change (CCC) outline the purpose and function of the CCC's Community Crime Prevention Services Project and emphasize the need for leadership training in community crime prevention.
Abstract
CCC is devoted to providing low-and middle-income groups with equity of access into the social, economic, and criminal justice systems through provision of technical assistance. The training agenda includes goals, general learning skills, and specific skills. A dramatic vignette portrays the CCC's goal and future within the community and shows that crime prevention is part of an overall concern for the community. One speaker notes that leadership is the ability to inspire others to aspire collectively to whole and safe communities. CCC realizes that without social and economic justice, there is no criminal justice. The CCC program is placed in strategic cities across the Nation, including New York City; Washington, D.C.; Denver; and Santa Monica, Calif. The basic attack on crime needs to come from informed citizenry at the neighborhood level. Thus, CCC seeks to create a new body of citizen-leaders in community crime prevention. These community leaders must become planners and organizers who will help residents translate their concerns about crime into issues, their issues into strategies, and their strategies into actions. An informed community leadership can have a tremendous impact on alleviating the root causes of crime, on aiding crime victims, on equitably operating the criminal justice system, and on rehabilitating offenders into productive roles.