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Social and environmental strategies for safer neighbourhoods
Essentials of crime prevention workshops
SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY
6 JUNE 2012 SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Essentials of crime prevention Four workshops to be held in conjunction with the international conference, Crime prevention & communities—social and environmental strategies for safer neighbourhoods
Overview The Australian Institute of Criminology’s Crime Prevention ASSIST program, and the Sydney Institute of Criminology (Sydney University Law School) are presenting four Essentials of crime prevention workshops on June 6 2012 following the Crime prevention and communities conference. These will be tailored for a wide range of practitioners— police, local government, NGOs—working in crime prevention project development and management. Each workshop will be led by experts who have hands-on experience designing and implementing crime prevention initiatives for a wide range of organisations and communities. The workshops will be held at The University of Sydney Sydney Law School (Camperdown) New Law School Building (F10) Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus The University of Sydney NSW 2006 The following provides detailed instructions on how to get to the Law School (http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/ campus.shtml). These workshops are a practical annex to the Crime Prevention conference. Places are limited to ensure each workshop is useful and effective, so it is advisable to get your registration in on time.
Cost of workshop Conference delegate discount One workshop only
$150
Two workshops
$250
Non-delegate One workshop only
$200
Two workshops
$300
The Australian Institute of Criminology is Australia’s national research and knowledge centre on crime and justice. Its Crime Reduction and Review program consults on project development and evaluation for police and other crime prevention professionals at all levels of government. The Sydney Institute of Criminology is a research centre based in the Sydney University Law School. The institute specialises in criminology, criminal justice and criminal law and advises government and private organisations on matters of crime law and policy. Institute staff sit on a range of public sector committees and advisory boards. The AIC’s Crime Prevention ASSIST program has been established to improve crime prevention knowledge transfer and to enhance the skills and capacity of those engaged in crime prevention to more effectively manage and evaluate their work. This is being achieved through three areas of service delivery: • production of applied crime prevention resources • training and professional development in crime prevention evaluation • funded research and evaluation services. Work of Crime Prevention ASSIST builds on crime prevention theory and the best available evidence about good practice in crime prevention.
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Morning workshops
Afternoon workshops
9.00am - 12.30pm
1.30pm - 5.00pm
Workshop 1: Essentials of Finding the Evidence for Effective Crime Prevention
Workshop 3: Essentials of Problem Solving
Garner Clancey and Peter Homel
Michael Scott
In this age of evidence-based policy and programs, it is critical to know where to find and how to access the best and most relevant information and research. This session will focus on the most important potential sources of information to help crime prevention and policing practitioners. Key databases will be identified and research methodologies and strategies reviewed, enabling end users to determine the relative merits of published research. The session will also review tools and resources that help to distil research evidence into a form that can be used by practitioners.
There are many essential elements to solving a problem—working out what the problem is, analyzing it thoroughly, developing and implementing interventions and coming up with a reliable evaluation of the results.
After they have explored ways of accessing and using research evidence, participants will have the opportunity to share with and hear from crime prevention and policing practitioners what other resources they require. Issues arising will help inform the work of the Australian and Sydney Institutes of Criminology.
This workshop will focus on one of the more confounding aspects of effective public safety problem solving: persuading reluctant stakeholders to take greater ownership of the problem and to accept their share of responsibility for addressing it. Too often the various actors do not think it is up to them to control the conditions that give rise to a problem—and the harm it causes—or don’t believe it is in their interest to do so. This workshop will explore strategies and techniques that crime prevention practitioners can apply to overcome such resistance. The workshop will provide an overview of the resources of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing. The Center’s information is valuable and available to crime prevention practitioners.
Workshop 2: Essentials of Project Management for Crime Prevention
Workshop 4: Essentials of Evaluation
Rick Brown
Katie Willis and Anthony Morgan
Crime prevention projects often struggle at the implementation stage because they have not been adequately planned and managed.
Few would argue that evaluation is an important part of effective crime prevention. A well designed evaluation can help to answer a number of important questions about your project. Was it implemented according to how it was designed? Has it worked to address the targeted problem? Why did it or didn’t it work? What could you have done better?
This workshop will examine some of the most common of these problems and then present some practical tools for managing projects. The workshop will introduce the concept of the ‘dynamic project lifecycle’ and explore how it can be used to plan, implement and monitor project activity. The workshop will also show how project logic diagrams and work breakdown structures can be used to plan timescales and manage project staff, especially those involving partnership working.
Through the use of case studies, this workshop will equip practitioners with the skills and knowledge to design an evaluation, develop an evaluation plan, contract external evaluators and understand evaluation reports.
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Workshop presenters Dr Rick Brown Rick Brown is Deputy Director (Research) of the Australian Institute of Criminology. He has evaluated many crime prevention and community safety projects in the UK and has trained many community safety practitioners in crime prevention project management. He has also published a number of papers on the role of project management in the successful implementation of community safety projects.
Garner Clancey Garner Clancey lectures at and is Deputy Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney). Garner is also the Vice-President of the Australian Crime Prevention Council.
Professor Peter Homel Peter Homel is the AIC’s Principal Criminologist (Crime Prevention) and a Professor at Griffith University’s Key Centre for Ethics Law Justice and Governance, where he is setting up the Asia–Pacific Centre for the Prevention of Crime.
Professor Michael Scott Michael Scott is the Director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and a Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School in the United States.
Anthony Morgan Anthony Morgan is a Principal Research Analyst with the Crime Reduction and Review program at the AIC. He has extensive experience in the evaluation of crime prevention, criminal justice and child protection programs involving both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Anthony has also worked on a range of crime prevention research projects, including the systematic review of community-based prevention strategies and the development of the national crime prevention framework.
Dr Katie Willis Katie Willis is Principle Research Analyst within the Crime Reduction and Review program at the AIC. Immediately prior to this she was Acting Research Manager, Crime Reduction and Review. She has extensive experience in project design and implementation. Between 2004 and 2009 she led two major projects to establish an outcomes-based performance measurement framework for Australian drug law enforcement agencies. She regularly conducts national meetings and roundtables with external organisations and stakeholders, and is responsible for coordinating and delivering evaluation training courses both in and outside the AIC.
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