Resources

New Publications From NCPC

Crime Prevention Presentations, Volume 1

A new tool from NCPC will help crime prevention practitioners present workshops on the latest topics and trends in crime prevention. The seven PowerPoint presentations on CD-ROM cover Crime Prevention Trends, Neighborhood Watch (Parts 1 and 2), Crime Prevention and Community Preparedness, Identity Theft and Strategies for Crime Prevention, Improving Police–Community Relations, and Seniors and Crime Prevention. Each presentation is intended to educate, increase awareness, and teach prevention strategies, and each topic can be covered in approximately 60 to 90 minutes. Trainers are encouraged to prepare notes or a script tailored to the needs of each audience and to interact with the audience and not just lecture. However, a version of the Crime Prevention Presentations that includes trainer notes is also available on www.ncpc.org. (You must download the PowerPoint presentation onto your computer to view the trainer notes.)

Call 800-NCPC-911 to order your copy today. Ask for Item CD3. Single copies are free, plus shipping. Bulk copies are $1 each, plus shipping.

Reaching and Serving Teen Victims: A Practical Handbook

Mention “teens” and “crime,” and many people think about vandalism, stolen cars, and gang violence. Crime committed by teens is without doubt an urgent problem. However, an obsession with young criminals obscures another troubling problem—the alarming number of American teens who are victims of crime. Reaching and Serving Teen Victims: A Practical Handbook is an innovative new resource to help adults work more effectively with teenage victims of crime. The handbook gives an overview of adolescent development and the way that victimization affects teens uniquely. It provides strategies for assessing the extent and nature of teen victimization in the community, creating effective outreach, making the service environment teen-friendly, and interacting with teens in helpful and productive ways. The handbook, which also includes guidance on parent and family involvement and mandatory reporting, was designed for victim advocates, law enforcement officers, educators, counselors, youth workers, and other professionals who come into contact with teen crime victims.

Reaching and Serving Teen Victims was produced as part of the Youth Outreach Victims Assistance project, a partnership between the National Crime Prevention Council and the National Center for Victims of Crime, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, to support youth-adult teams in designing and implementing youth-led outreach campaigns on teen victimization topics.

Call 800-NCPC-911 to order your copy today. Ask for Item M100. Copies are free, plus shipping, and the document is also available online at www.ncpc.org.

Engaging the Power of Prevention: 10 Action Principles

In 1990 the Crime Prevention Coalition of America promulgated 11 principles for effective crime prevention and published them in Crime Prevention in America: Call to Action . Engaging the Power of Prevention updates that document and is designed to renew commitment to crime prevention. The ten action principles in Engaging the Power of Prevention describe quality crime prevention efforts. They outline what features these programs should have, regardless of topic, audience, setting, or medium. They draw from experience and research, and they make it clear that good crime prevention requires broad engagement, good information, collaboration as well as cooperation, focus from policing agencies, and strong leadership. The payoff: children, youth and adults are safer. Neighborhoods are safer and more vibrant. Communities are stronger and more vital. These ten principles can help us focus on strategies that meet the crime prevention needs of the 21 st century.

Call 800-NCPC-911 to order your copy today. Ask for Item M101. Copies are $9.95 each, plus shipping.

Preventing Crime Saves Money

Effective crime prevention saves money. The financial, physical, and psychological costs of crime are enormous. Prevention programs are often much less expensive than the crimes they prevent, offering a good return on investment. Some savings are not easily valued in dollars (e.g., an increased sense of security in a neighborhood), but they are recognized as visible and valuable nonetheless. This report looks at the costs of crime, at the concepts of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, and at ways that such approaches can be used locally. It provides examples that make the case for investment in crime prevention strategies. It also provides examples of cost-effectiveness from a number of crime prevention perspectives.

Part of NCPC's Topics in Crime Prevention series, Preventing Crime Saves Money is a revision and update of Saving Money While Stopping Crime , published in 1999. Saving Money While Stopping Crime , is available free, plus shipping, while supplies last. Ask for Item R14.

Call 800-NCPC-911 to order your copy of Preventing Crime Saves Money today. Ask for Item R19. Copies are $7.95 each, plus shipping.

Special Discounts on NCPC Publications

Preventing Crime—and Terrorism

With the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks not long past, this is a good time to order NCPC's homeland security publication—at a significant discount. For just $5.00, $2.95 off the regular price of $7.95, you can order Crime Prevention Can Spur and Support Homeland Security in Neighborhoods and Communities . This publication highlights the connections between preventing crime and preventing terrorism, describes the assets crime prevention offers to homeland security activities, and suggests the benefits of collaboration. Many of the skills and the organization required for such crime prevention efforts as Neighborhood Watch can be applied to homeland security strategies. If you have any homeland security responsibilities, this is a document you'll want to read. Be sure to specify Offer A15 when you order.

Ordering Instructions : To order this publication, call NCPC's Fulfillment Center at 800-NCPC-911 and specify Offer A15 . Shipping and handling charges are additional. Bulk discounts: Order 15 copies or more of this publication and get an additional 20 percent off.

Other Resources

New School Resource Officer Guide Available from COPS

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has published A Guide to Developing, Maintaining, and Succeeding With Your School Resource Officer Program: Practices From the Field for Law Enforcement and School Administration . The report, which is online at www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=1530, documents promising methods that selected school resource officer (SRO) programs have used to address difficulty in recruiting, screening, retaining, training, and supervising SROs. This publication is available from the COPS Office Response Center at 800-421-6770.