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Australian Institute of Criminology

An independent institution devoted to the study of crime and criminal justice. A Register of selected crime prevention projects contains a searchable database of over 100 crime prevention efforts undertaken in Australia. Crime prevention series booklets aimed at providing theoretical and practical information on preventing specific crimes are also available.

Center for Court Innovation

The Center disseminates the lessons learned from innovative programs, helping criminal justice practitioners around the world launch their own problem-solving experiments.

Center for Homicide Research

The three-fold goals of the Center are to increase case solvability, to articulate homicide issues and to reduce incidence of homicide.

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

A Federal office dedicated to advancing community policing. Information on grants, technical assistance, and numerous publications on problem-solving policing are available.

Design Against Crime (DAC) Research Centre (UK)

Provides papers and presentations on the "5 Is" : Intelligence, Intervention, Implementation, Involvement and Impact, offered by Paul Ekblom as a "second generation SARA" model for researching the conjunction of crime and opportunity.

Home Office Crime Reduction (UK)

An organization dedicated to information, ideas and experience to prevent and reduce crime in public and private sectors. Crime Reduction Toolkits contain information, advice, and strategies designed to guide police agencies in dealing with specific problems. Existing crime prevention efforts are available in a searchable knowledgebasek. Several publications containing information about problem solving policing are also available.

International Association of Chiefs of Police

A nonprofit organization of police executives dedicated to advancing the science of policing through the exchange of information. Numerous publications, technical assistance, and model police policies are available.

International Association of Crime Analysts

This is the main meeting point for crime analysts throughout the world, providing information on training courses, certification, conferences, crime analysis tools and many other resources.

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (Canada)

An international non-governmental organization created with the mission of assisting cities and countries to reduce crime and disorder. Technical assistance and crime prevention publications are available.

International CPTED Association

An international organization dedicated to crime prevention by environmental design. Publications are available at CPTED Resources. CPTED will be publishing an online journal of completed case studies beginning in 2003.

Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science

The Institute plays a pivotal role in bringing together politicians, scientists, designers and those in the front line of fighting crime to examine patterns in crime, and to find practical methods to disrupt these patterns.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

LISC helps resident-led, community-based development organizations transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into healthy ones – good places to live, do business, work and raise families. By providing capital, technical expertise, training and information, LISC supports the development of local leadership and the creation of affordable housing, commercial, industrial and community facilities, businesses and jobs and helps neighbors build communities. Solving crime and disorder problems is an important focus of LISC's work.

National Crime Prevention (Australia)

Contains information on crime prevention in public and private sectors. Publications on specific crime prevention efforts are available.