Type:	Report
Title:	Preventing crime : community safety and crime prevention strategy
Authors:	WA Office of Crime Prevention
Keywords:	Early intervention;Overview;Policy;Prevention;Community attitudes
Categories:	Prevention
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Western Australia. Office of Crime Prevention, [Perth
Notes:	This sets the strategic direction for community safety and crime prevention in Western Australia. The 5 key goals to make the community safer are: supporting families, children and young people; strengthening communities and revitalising neighbourhoods; targeting priority offences; reducing repeat offending; and designing out crime and using technology. The Strategy explains how the WA Government will work in partnership with local government and the community. Research into perceived importance of specific crimes (with mean ratings from 1 as not at all important to 5 as very important) shows that: child abuse is perceived as the most important (4.62 to 4.65), followed by sexual assault/rape (4.61 to 4.58); murder (4.50 to 4.43); with domestic and family violence from the fourth bottom (4.14 to 4.20), just above household burglary (4.06 to 4.12); followed by vandalism perceived as the second least important crime (3.60 to 3.73); with car theft perceived as the least important crime (3.49 to 3.48). Research shows that men and women are just as likely to be victims of crime against the person but this masks the significant difference in the profile of offences affecting men and women. The location of offences against the person shows that females are far more likely to be victims within their own homes when men are more likely to be victims in non-residential and public spaces. The real difference is likely to be greater given the significance of under-reporting of domestic violence. The Government has established the Family and Domestic Violence Unit to develop the State’s domestic violence strategy which includes a Five-Year Plan, and new domestic violence legislation to improve protection and increase penalties for perpetrators. The WA Government will also publish an annual Report Card for Women, including progress on women’s safety, which will help determine priorities and monitoring progress of this Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention. The State Community Safety and Crime Prevention Fund is set to spend $15 million in the next 4 years on grant funds for community safety and crime prevention. The identified priorities are: drugs and alcohol, burglary, young people, women’s safety, child abuse and family violence in Indigenous communities, and early intervention.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19263
Physical description:	60 p. : ill., port ; 30 cm.
Appears in Collections:	Reports

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