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Building Safer Communities through Community Development

Building Safer Communities through Community Development. Jon Bannister Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research . Building Safer Communities. Community Safety can be defined as an endeavour to ensure that:

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Building Safer Communities through Community Development

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  1. Building Safer Communities throughCommunity Development Jon Bannister Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

  2. Building Safer Communities Community Safety can be defined as an endeavour to ensure that: “People are safe from crime, disorder, danger, and free from injury and harm; communities are socially cohesive and tolerant; and, are resilient and able to support individuals to take responsibility for their well-being.”

  3. Building Safer Communities Youth disorder • The disproportionate blaming of youth: children as animals and vermin (perception). • Youth-on-youth violence (reality).

  4. Building Safer Communities Fracturing communities and rising intolerance • Individualism and difference. • Economic uncertainty and deprivation. • Segregated, distrustful and demanding personal respect.

  5. Building Safer Communities Fracturing communities and rising intolerance • Tolerance as virtue and policy value. But, policy delivery: • It’s ‘them’ not ‘us’ (fragmentation). • ASB and Respect agendas (intolerance).

  6. Building Safer Communities Segregation and respect, fragmentation and intolerance, fuelling youth disorder • Stereotyping youth, youth as a symbol of decline. • Violence.

  7. Building Safer Communities • Tolerant and cohesive communities. • Tolerance based on mutual respect requiring active engagement. • Sharing, coping, understanding and changing. • Building Safer Communities through Community Development

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