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The National Institute of Justice has created a topic website on Gun Violence Prevention. The site includes information on evaluating gun violence as an illicit supply-and-demand marketplace, programs and strategies on gun violence prevention, and a focus on the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
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Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2006, Statistical Tables presents 110 tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey of 2006. Topics include violent crimes, theft, victim characteristics, crime characteristics, police response time to reported crimes, and whether and why crimes were reported to the police. The tables are only available electronically, and can be downloaded one at a time, by section, or the complete set.
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Strategies to Address Gang Crime: A Guidebook for Local Law Enforcement, a new publication from the Community Oriented Policing Services office, addresses problems with gangs across the nation. A central premise of this guidebook is that gang problems are local and to solve those problems we need to understand their nature and the immediate underlying conditions that give rise to them. This book uses the SARA model (scanning, analysis, response, assessment) to resolve local gang problems.
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The COPS office has also published a report on effective practices for law enforcement agencies designing and evaluating prisoner reentry approaches. Planning and Assessing a Law Enforcement Reentry Strategy combines best practices with an interactive assessment to make a toolkit, giving law enforcement and their community partners an overview of the topics they need to discuss as they create their program. The report can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed in HTML.
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Crime Prevention Research Review No. 3: Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime?, a new publication from the COPS office, summarizes the findings of intensive national studies of Watch programs in both the United States and the United Kingdom. A systematic review, meta-analysis, and policy implications of the program are offered.
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A 2007 Tribal Youth Focus Group of Native American youth ages 10 to 17 and their chaperones from 20 tribes nationwide informs this guide, which the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will use to develop programs to address issues in tribal communities. In particular, OJJDP will develop programs to improve tribal efforts to prevent and control delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system for American Indian and Alaska Native youth, as well as provide mental health and substance abuse services to youth. A PDF of the report can be downloaded from the OJJDP website.
