| Project title: | Fairfield City Council's Safer Neighbourhood Project |
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| Project type: | Social Crime Prevention |
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| Researchers/contact: | Waverly Municipal Council, Fairfield City Council |
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| Commencement date: | 1990 |
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| Location: | NSW ; Waverly ; Fairfield |
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| Funding body/institution: | Criminology Research Council Grant ; Federal Office of Local Government ; Law Foundation of NSW; |
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| Description of the study: | Fairfield City Council and Waverley Municipality embarked in 1990 on community crime prevention research projects in their local areas. Fairfield City Council's Safer Neighbourhood Project addressed community issues relating to increasing neighbourhood crime. The project incorporated education programs aimed at educating the public, politicians, and service/planning agencies about the costs and social/environmental causes of crime. It also aims to devise and implement plans for prevention and reduction of crime problems within the local community. |
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| Description of the outcomes: | Initiatives resulting from the Fairfield Safer Neighbourhood Project include: a five-year crime profile of the local government area (July 1985-June 1990) which contains an analysis of sixteen categories of crime; a domestic violence services brochure, a crime prevention and local government seminar, a community study on the fear of crime, perceptions of the local crime problem and victimisation, local community development work around the issue of crime in a public housing estate, the establishment of a council-based program for regular use of community service order workers. |
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| Evaluation: | This project has not been evaluated. |
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