NCJ Number
181258
Journal
British Journal of Criminology Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Dated: Winter 1998 Pages: 124-144
Editor(s)
Richard Sparks
Date Published
1998
Length
21 pages
Annotation
This paper describes the main implementation issues associated with a crime prevention project in East London to reduce repeat racial victimization in a local authority housing estate.
Abstract
The project specifically sought to reduce the repeated racial victimization of Bengali and Somali residents of the housing estate and to suggest appropriate prevention measures to reduce this victimization. Main implementation issues associated with the project were identified as victim/statutory agency interaction, difficulties associated with multi-agency working and the politics of race, an intervention focused on racial crimes, and the role of researchers in a community-based action research project. The project evaluation determined the project would have been more successful if it had been accepted that agencies with a history of difficult working relationships are unlikely to work productive in an interagency setting. In addition, researchers questioned the wisdom of focusing a project on a single controversial issue when other issues may be of greater relevance to other sections of the community. For example, the issue of drug use by young people became increasingly important during the project's implementation phase. 53 references, 15 footnotes, and 2 figures