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The strategies in this guide—which have been culled from real-life approaches across the U.S.—are intended to assist law enforcement and government agencies seeking to prevent property abandonment and lessen problems when abandonment occurs.

This guide helps police understand what fear of crime is, why it matters, and why it should be an important target of police attention. The Guide provides a number of tools and techniques that should enable any police department to successfully add fear reduction to its operational strategy and organizational bottom line.

The mission of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is to advance the concept and practice of problem-oriented policing in open and democratic societies. It does so by making readily accessible information about ways in which police can more effectively address specific crime and disorder problems. Their website includes:

This paper is timely, given that policing is currently going through a period of significant change in both operational tactics and organisational structures. New ideas in crime reduction and changes to short- and long-term policing strategies are underway. Intelligence-led policing represents a recent approach and is one of the more prevalent of the current "shifts in crime control philosophy and policing practice" (Maguire 2000).

An important component of the SPI is the application of evidence-based practices to improve policing operations. The Systematic Reviews Research Program at George Mason University is committed to investigation "what work" in crime prevention. The Program partnered with the Campbell Collaboration Users Group to develop plain-language summaries of the effects of various police tactics on addressing crime issues. A selection of these summaries are accessible below, and more may be found at the… Read More

The Evidence-Based Policing Matrix is a research-to-practice translation tool that categories and visualizes all experimental and quasi-experimental research on police and crime reduction according to three common dimensions of crime prevention – the nature of the target, the extent to which the strategy is proactive or reactive, and the specificity or generality of the strategy.

BJA and CNA would like to draw your attention to an innovative resource that may prove beneficial to your SPI and other criminal justice research efforts. George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP) has created the "eConsortium of University Centers and Researchers." This is a completely free and open service that allows university centers and researchers to register their information, specialties, and interests, so that criminal justice agencies who are seeking… Read More

Collaboration is a key component of Smart Policing and the National Institute of Justice has been promoting law enforcement/researcher partnerships in its grant programs for many years. Specifically, in 1995 the NIJ and the COPS Office sponsored the Locally Initiated Research Partnerships program to promote sound research and evaluation techniques as police agencies implemented community policing. This report evaluates the effectiveness of this program, as well as the partnerships developed… Read More

The City of High Point, North Carolina, has successfully implemented focused deterrence approaches to reduce violent gun crime for thirteen years. Based on systematic and thorough problem identification, the High Point Police Department (HPPD) and their community counterpart, the High Point Community Against Violence (HPCAV), have worked together with Professor David Kennedy of John Jay College of Criminal Justice to develop and implement this strategy to reduce violent crime associated with… Read More

In 2001, the Department of Justice implemented the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative which represents a nationwide commitment to reduce gun and gang crime in America. Since its inception, PSN has supported several research efforts, innovative strategies, and partnerships across the country. This report provides case study examples of how PSN communities engaged offenders in crime reductions strategies. This case study offers best practices that can inform similar efforts within the… Read More