National Symposium on Community Institutions and Inner-City Crime: Shaping the Future Agenda of Urban Crime Control Policy and Research, Final Report

• NCJ Number: 107811
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 168 pages
• Grant Number(s): 85-IJ-CX-0073
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Conference Material

Annotation

This report describes 18 outstanding existing programs for reducing inner city crime and presents recommendations from a 1987 symposium on the ways that various institutions and organizations can help deal with this problem.

Abstract

Symposium participants included elected officials, criminal justice system personnel, academicians, directors of community-based crime prevention programs, civil leaders, business people, ministers, ex-offenders, victims, new reporters, and entertainers representing all geographic areas and all major ethnic groups and community institutions. Discussions focused on current crime problems, strategies and techniques for dealing with them, and recommendations for urban crime control policy and research. The roles of community institutions such as the family and friends, schools and educational institutions, churches and other religious groups, business and employment opportunities, civic and self-help groups, entertainment and news media, and juvenile and criminal justice agencies are examined. Effective efforts by these community institutions and the importance of shared responsibility are emphasized. The operations of the 18 programs selected for site visits are detailed. Appended symposium agenda, background survey questionnaire, addresses of the nearly 350 programs that responded to the survey, and related materials.