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National Community Crime Prevention Programme

A new program launched in 2004 focusing on how to increase the ability of Australian communities to recognise local crime problems and to pursue effective, locally organised, crime prevention initiatives.

• National Community Crime Prevention Program website

NCCPP community grants programme

• Grants programme application kit
• Information to assist you to manage a NCCPP grant
• Information about each round
• NCCPP advisory groups

National Crime Prevention Programme

The Federal Government's National Crime Prevention Programme is a major Australian initiative. Formerly known as the National Campaign Against Violence and Crime, it was launched in 1997 by the Prime Minister, with the aim of preventing and reducing the fear of violence and crime.

Recent publications

• Australian crime: Facts & figures: 2011
  03 March 2012
• Considering local context when evaluating a closed circuit television system in public spaces
  21 October 2011
• Crime prevention programs for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia
  15 June 2011
• Cost-benefit analysis and its application to crime prevention and criminal justice research
  18 March 2011
• A model performance framework for community based crime prevention
  09 February 2011
• Bushfire arson prevention handbook
  03 May 2010
• Considerations for establishing a public space CCTV network
  18 December 2009
• Improving crime prevention knowledge and practice
  10 December 2009
• Using CCTV to reduce antisocial behaviour
  04 November 2009
• Consumer fraud in Australia: costs, rates and awareness of the risks in 2008
  07 October 2009
• Moving knowledge into action: applying social marketing principles to crime prevention
  14 September 2009
• Private security in Australia: trends and key characteristics
  20 July 2009
• Integrated approaches to alcohol-related antisocial behaviour and violence
  15 July 2009
• Strategies for preventing armed robbery
  15 July 2009
• Policing in and around licensed premises
  19 June 2009

AIC events

• Crime prevention and communities: Social and environmental strategies for safer neighbourhoods
  04 June 2012
• Securing the knowledge: the 5I’s framework for improving performance in crime prevention, security and community safety
  26 July 2010
• Young people, crime and community safety : engagement and early intervention
  25 February 2008
• Improving community safety: lessons from the country and the city
  18 October 2007
• The role of schools in crime prevention
  01 October 2002