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Creating Safer Communities In Europe - A Crime Prevention Sourcebook

PREFACE

Last updated November 1999

This document has been produced as part of a joint educational project between the University of the West of England, The University of Twente and the University of Barcelona, with funding from the European Commission. As well as being a self-contained sourcebook for practitioners, it is the set text for an open/distance learning unit (5f) which is part of the Certificated Programme in Community Safety and Crime Prevention, offered by the University of the West of England in conjunction with the Safe Neighbourhoods Unit.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following for supplying information: Mark Branwyn and John McDonnell at the Association of London Government; Professor Géza Katona, Institute for Law Enforcement, Management Training and Research, Budapest; Jan van Dijk, Ministry of Justice, The Hague, Holland; John Graham, Home Office, London; Susann Pauli, Brigitte Tod and Veronique Dupuis, UWE, Bristol; Robert van Overbeek and Tobias Woldendorp, van Dijk, van Soomeren en Partners, Amsterdam; Tim Kendrick and David Lowe, Edinburgh City Council; Miguel Angel Soria, University of Barcelona; Stasja Draisma and Alexis Aronowitz, University of Twente; Kris van Limbergen, Ministry of the Interior, Belgium; Peter Goris, University of Leuven; Jean Claude Salomon, Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure, Paris; Ricarda Buch, Berlin; Susanne Babl, Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Farid Merabet, Droit de Cite; Anne Jensen; Vincenzo Ruggiero; Dorcas O¯Dea; Gerry O'Farrell, Garda Siochana.

For enquiries, comments, updates and suggested improvements, please contact: Henry Shaftoe, School of Housing and Urban Studies, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol BS16 1QY England. Tel: (0) 117 328 3082 Fax: (0) 117 328 3346 Email: Henry.Shaftoe@uwe.ac.uk.