Notes on Basic Place-Related Approaches to Violence Control and Neighborhood Revitalization

• NCJ Number: 153562
• Author(s): D M Kennedy
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 17 pages
• Sale Source: Harvard University
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: DCC. Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Working Paper 93-05-11.

Annotation

The concept of place is discussed as it relates to violence prevention and control.

Abstract

This short working paper looks at crime interventions that consider place as a unit of analysis. Place, i.e., a physical area with particularly significant violence problems such as public housing area, troubled communities, and street drug markets, and place, i.e., a problem-solving frame of reference inviting particular place-specific technologies such as crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), prevention projects in public housing, and community initiatives to reclaim troubled neighborhoods, are explored. Troubled-neighborhood initiatives examined include the Sandtown project in Baltimore and the Showcase neighborhood project in Savannah. Other strategies considered include community policing, localized, community- based interventions such as Howard University's Violence Prevention Project and localized problem-solving government such as Neighborhood Service Centers, public health approaches, community mobilization efforts, and CPTED.