Registrations open for Crime Prevention and Policy conference
About the conference
The ‘Crime prevention and policy: New tools for contemporary challenges’ international conference with workshops is sponsored by the New South Wales Department of Attorney General and Justice in partnership with the Australian Institute of Criminology. The conference aim is to share and broaden knowledge for policy and decision makers, in the use of both economic and spatial analysis in crime prevention. The conference will be held on November 23-24, 2011 at the Mercure Hotel, 818 George Street Sydney.
All levels of Government and policing agencies are faced daily with questions such as:
- Which projects should be funded?
- What crime types should be targeted?
- Which strategies are the most cost effective?
As a wealth of data is collected on the dynamics of crime, and the effectiveness of crime prevention programs, policy makers need better ways of analysing and understanding that data.
Crime prevention and cost-effective policy
The conference will provide participants with the latest methods and techniques to make better crime prevention decisions and to allocate resources effectively. The analysis of crime using evidence-based methods is increasingly used worldwide in crime prevention. Economic and spatial crime mapping are two particular techniques that have become increasingly utilized to identify crime problems and as tools to monitor the effectiveness of interventions. These techniques, along with cost benefit and risk analysis, are also increasingly being applied to public security and policing as well as other Government policy areas such as transport, health and economic planning.
These interdisciplinary challenges will be explored by two expert workshops led by Dr Steve Aos, Director of the Washington State Institute of Public Policy, and Professor Patricia Brantingham, Director of the Canadian Institute for Urban Research Studies (ICURS) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Other sessions and Australian presenters will also discuss contemporary practice.
In order to update Australian policy designers and practitioners on current international best practice, the conference will focus on the following areas:
- Estimating the benefits to the community when crime is prevented
- Analysis of crime prevention interventions to determine the best strategies for a given investment
- Techniques to map and cost the criminal justice process, and to identify policy efficiencies
- Use and analysis of crime maps in the identification and monitoring of responses to crime problems
Who should attend?
- Government policy analysts, project officers, law enforcement officers and evaluators in the fields of policing, justice and crime prevention
- Economics consultants with experience in advising governments on crime, health, environment and transport economics
- Local councils
- Academics and students interested in the interdisciplinary challenge of economics and criminology
- Private crime prevention consultants.
Enquiries
General enquiries can be directed to the conference coordinator Kate Hancott on 02 6260 9272 or events@aic.gov.au Alternatively, visit www.aic.gov.au/events/aic%20upcoming%20events/2011/prevention.aspx
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