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Content

• Introduction
• Lectures and Documents from the 6^th Annual International Forum
• ERICH MARKS
• Opening of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention 2012
• IRVIN WALLER
• Balanced Investing in Proven Crime Prevention: A Crime Victim Right
• CAROLINE L. DAVEY / ANDREW B. WOOTTON / MELISSA MARSELLE
• Youth Design Against Crime Enabling youth-led innovation in crime prevention
• INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME (ICPC)
• 2012 International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety
• TINA SILBERNAGL / PHILIPP KUEHL
• Systemic approaches and collaborative action for realizing community safety-experiences from South Africa
• ALEXANDER BUTCHART
• Preventing Violence: an Overview
• GERMAN CONGRESS ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CONGRESS PARTNERS
• Munich Declaration of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention
• ERICH MARKS / MARC COESTER / FREDERICK GROEGER-ROTH / BURKHARD HASENPUSCH / CLAUDIA HEINZELMANN / ANJA MEYER / SUSANNE WOLTER
• Some experiences by the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony (CPC) concerning quality-oriented and evidence-based prevention policies
• Program of the 6^th Annual International Forum
• Authors

Introduction

The German Congress on Crime Prevention is an annual event that takes place since 1995 in different German cities and targets all areas of crime prevention: Administration, the health system, youth welfare, the judiciary, churches, local authorities, the media, politics, the police, crime prevention committees, projects, schools, organizations, associations and science. The desired effect is to present and strengthen crime prevention within a broad societal framework. Thus it contributes to crime reduction as well as to the prevention and the reduced risk of becoming a victim as well as fear of crime. The main objectives of the congress are:

1. Presenting and exchanging current and basic questions of crime prevention and its effectiveness.
2. Bringing together partners within the field of crime prevention.
3. Functioning as a forum for the practice, and fostering the exchange of experiences.
4. Helping to get contacts at an international level and to exchange information.
5. Discussing implementation strategies.
6. Developing and disseminating recommendations for practice, politics, administration and research.

Since its foundation the German Congress on Crime Prevention has been opened to an international audience with a growing number of non-German speaking participants joining. Because prevention is more than a national concern and should be focused internationally this step seemed crucial. Bringing together not only German scientists and practitioners but also international experts in crime prevention and therefore developing a transnational forum to foster the exchange of knowledge and experience constitutes the main focus of this approach. To give the international guests a discussion forum, the Annual International Forum within the German Congress on Crime Prevention was established in 2007. For non-German guests this event offers lectures in English language as well as other activities within the German Congress on Crime Prevention that are translated simultaneously. International guests are able to play an active role by presenting poster or displaying information within the exhibition.

Over the next few years we intend to develop this concept further. It is our wish to build an international forum for crime prevention that ensures a competent exchange of ideas, theories and applied approaches.

This fifth edition of “International Perspectives of Crime Prevention” includes the outcomes of the 6^th Annual International Forum which took place within the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention on the 16^th and 17^th of April 2012 in Munich and gathered together more than 4000 people from the field of crime prevention in Germany and worldwide. Along this congress the 2012 annual meeting of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) took place. The VPA is a network of World Health Organization member states, international agencies and civil society organizations working to prevent violence. In two days over 50 international experts discussed the implementation of the new VPA structure, the Draft Plan of Action for the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention (GCVP) 2012-2020 and how the VPA can help implement this plan and gave updates on activities of the VPA project groups.

The articles from the 6^th Annual International Forum come from Irvin Waller, Caroline L. Davey, Andrew B. Wootton and Melissa Marselle, the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Tina Silbernagl and Philipp Kuehl as well as Alexander Butchart which all presented important topics at the congress in Munich. Also included is the welcome address within the opening plenum of the German Congress on Crime Prevention by Erich Marks, the Munich Declaration (a summary of the congress outcome) as well as an outline of the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony as one example of an institutionalized approach to crime prevention from Germany.

All articles in this book reflect worldwide views on crime prevention as well as the current status, discussion and research in crime prevention from different countries.

We hope to find a broad audience, interested in the upcoming events of the Annual International Forum as well as the German Congress on Crime Prevention. For more information please visit our website at http://www.gcocp.org.

Marc Coester and Erich Marks

Lectures and Documents from the 6^th Annual International Forum

Erich Marks

“The only thing that is safe is that nothing is safe, that is why I am skeptical, to be on the safe side” ¹

- Opening of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention 2012 -

The main topic of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention is „Safe living in the city and the state”. And if, according to Karl Valentin, nothing is really safe, it is even more important for us not only to be skeptical in general but also to critically discuss in an open and free society what type of security we would like to achieve, what is supposed to keep the society together and how we want to live tomorrow.

1. A very warm welcome to the German Congress on Crime Prevention 2012

I would like to welcome all participants and guests of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention at the International Congress Center Munich. I am glad that so many people have come and would like to particularly thank already now at the beginning of the congress all the people making this congress possible by their active participation as speakers, in the moderation and organization.

As in the previous years, many honorary guests have agreed to participate in the Munich congress. I would like to particularly welcome the representatives of this year’s hosting organizer and also express deepest gratitude for the financial support of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention as well as for the pleasant joint preparation as regards the content and the organization of this year’s congress

• Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian Minister of State of the Interior, at the same time representing the patron of the congress Minister-President Horst Seehofer
• Dr. Beate Merk, Bavarian Minister of State of Justice and Consumer Protection
• Christian Ude, Mayor of the state capital Munich and patron of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention
• Dr. Wilfried Blume-Beyerle, local government of the state capital Munich.

I would like to welcome the members of the Deutsche Bundestag

• Gabriele Fograscher, SPD fraction,
• Jerzy Montag, speaker for legal politics of the fraction Bündnis 90/Die Grünen,
• Hartfried Wolff, FDP fraction,

the members of the Bayerische Landtag

• Prof. Dr. Winfried Bausback, member of the CSU fraction,
• Prof. Dr. Peter Paul Gantzer, member of the SPD fraction,
• Petra L. Guttenberger, member of the CSU fraction,
• Angelika Schorer, member of the CSU fraction,
• Bernhard Seidenath, member of the CSU fraction,

the state ministers

• Ralf Jäger, Minster of the Interior and Municipal Matters of the state North-Rhine Westphalia,
• Thomas Kutschaty, Minister of Justice of the state North-Rhine Westphalia,
• Uwe Schünemann, Minister of the Interior and Sports of the state Lower Saxony,

the other speakers of the two plenary meetings

• Prof. Dr. Axel Groenemeyer, University of Dortmund,
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kerner, President of the foundation for crime prevention and help for misdemeanants,
• Dr. Wiebke Steffen, German Congress on Crime Prevention expert,
• Guilherme Pinto, President of the European Forum for Urban Security,
• Prof. Gerd Neubeck, head of company security of the Deutschen Bahn AG,
• Prof. Dr. Irvin Waller, University Ottawa,

the directors and presidents of central authorities and organizations operating nationwide and internationally

• Prof. Dr. Ilsu Kim, President of the Korean Institute for Criminology,
• Prof. Dr. Christian Pfeiffer, Director of the Criminological Research Institute Lower Saxony,
• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Pott, Director of the Federal Agency for Health Education,
• Harald Range, Federal Public Prosecutor at the Federal Supreme Court,
• Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig, independent representative for questions of sexual child abuse,
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Armin Schmidtke, Chairman of the National Suicide Prevention Program for Germany,
• Jörg Ziercke, President of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation and

the representatives of diplomatic agencies in the Federal Republic of Germany

• Envoy Dr. Corneliu Alexandru, Romania,
• Consul Aleksei Semiletnikov, Republic of Belarus,
• Ambassador Hassan Tchonai Elimi, Chad,
• First Counselor Ali Ramezan Zadeh, Islamic Republic of Iran.

I would like to cordially welcome the numerous municipal elected and leading representatives of public authorities and non-governmental organizations at the local, the state, the federal and the international level. I also would like to welcome by name from the large number of the national and international honorary guests Juma Assiago, Heike Bartesch, Jörg Baumbach, Dr. Paul Beinhofer, Dr. Karl-Heinz Blümel, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Böttcher, Peter Dathe, Johannes De Haan, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eisenmenger, Olga Fleischmann, Horst Fleischmann, Prof. Knut Foeckler, Dr. Isabell Götz, Prof. Dr. Christian Grafl, Prof. Dr. Wolf Hammann, Robert Heimberger, Christoph Hillenbrand, Mitchell Jacobs, Walter Kimmelzwinger, Waldemar Kindler, Marianne Kölbin, Robert Kopp, Rudolf Kraus, Dr. Martin Kuhlmann, Reinhard Kunkel, Gerold Mahlmeister, Alois Mannichl, Liliane Matthes, Hans-Jürgen Memel, Natalia Mendler, Johann Rast, Anton Scherl, Gerhard Schlögl, Mario Schmidbauer, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schmidbauer, Dr. Tina Silbernagl, Elisabeth Schosser, Wolfgang Sommer, Hubert Steiger, Harald Strötgen, Katrin Stüllenberg, Hermann Vogelgsang, Hans-Werner Wargel, Rolf Werlitz, Franz-Josef Wilfling and Prof. Siegfried Willutzki.

I would like to particularly welcome the present representatives of the sponsors of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention. Furthermore, I would like to welcome in particular all accredited journalists. Thank you very much in advance for your reporting in various media on the debates of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention and particularly on the wide range of prevention programs, practice initiatives and research projects.

2. Short supplement to the 16^th German Congress on Crime Prevention 2011 in Oldenburg

The debates of the main topic of the German Congress on Crime Prevention 2011 in Oldenburg – “New Media Worlds – challenges for crime prevention” – showed the requirement and the prime qualitative and quantitative importance of crime-preventive discussions with and in the new media worlds. The Oldenburg statement, the impressive students’ demonstration during the 16^th German Congress on Crime Prevention and the published proposals and presentations were often picked up by the press and were frequently retrieved from the Internet documentation of the German Congress on Crime Prevention. And the topics as regards crime on the Internet and particularly suitable possibilities of crime prevention will certainly play an important role in the debates of the future German Congresses on Crime Prevention for some time. The German Congress on Crime Prevention itself consciously decided by means of various initiatives to make better use of the communication opportunities of the new media and to particularly develop better possibilities of provided information in the area of knowledge management:

The „small prevention search engine dpt-map“

The webpage „dpt-map” (www.dpt-map.de and www.pre-search.org), which has existed since the end of 2010, specifically searches for projects, measurements, institutions and persons from the field of work crime prevention. The sources for the search for key words and key terms are thematic data bases of accounted specialized organizations having already been published on the Internet.

At the beginning of „dpt-map“ in October 2010, you could initially do research within 2,462 data records based on the webpages of the German Congress on Crime Prevention and the state prevention council Lower Saxony. Currently there are more than 3,800 records available. Further specialized organizations will be continuously included as partners. Any institution being interested in a partnership and linking of its data basis is expressly welcome.

The daily prevention news

Since July 2011 the German Congress on Crime Prevention has been publishing the current news particularly for the field of work of crime prevention and connected fields of prevention on a daily basis on its webpage www.praeventionstag.de. The daily prevention news informs on prevention events and relevant documents in the fields of prevention practice, prevention research and prevention politics. You may subscribe for or respectively make use of the daily prevention news in many ways: directly on the webpage of the German Congress on Crime Prevention, by way of a daily, weekly or monthly email, as RSS feed, via Twitter or on Facebook.

Presence with Facebook and Twitter

The presences of the German Congress on Crime Prevention with the online services Twitter and Facebook mainly providing and publishing the daily prevention news so far are still in the process of development.

The new App of the German Congress on Crime Prevention

Our new own app now also supports mobile retrieval of the knowledge documented on the Internet from the past sixteen German Congresses on Crime Prevention. This app of the German Congress on Crime Prevention, which was created by the company nanodesign, has been available for free download in the “iTunes App Store” under the keyword “prevention” since April 7, 2012. Some of the features of the German Congress on Crime Prevention app are:

• Offline research in the documentation archive of all congresses,
• Advanced search for persons and specialized organizations and
• Short information on the German Congress on Crime Prevention.

Updates for the app and content extensions will follow shortly.

Opening and closing plenum of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention live on the Internet

For several years the German Congress on Crime Prevention has also been publishing recordings from the opening and closing plenum of the annual congresses on its webpage. This offered additional information becomes more and more popular and is frequently used. The offered download of the opening speech of the 15^th German Congress on Crime Prevention (2010) by Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther in Berlin, for example, has already been used 20,000 times. For the first time the opening and the closing plenum of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention in Munich may also be watched live on the Internet. Due to the offered simultaneous interpreting the events may be watched in both languages German and English.

3. An overview of the congress

The 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention is organized as follows:

• Plenum at the beginning and the end of the congress
• 49 lectures about the main topic and further prevention topics
• 14 lectures in the 6. Annual International Forum AIF, each half in German and in English
• German Congress on Crime Prevention students university
• 54 short lectures (project spots)
• Exhibition including information stands, information trucks and special exhibitions with more than 200 participating organizations
• Poster session with 33 posters
• German Congress on Crime Prevention stage program with 10 activities
• Movie forum with 8 contributions
• Open special event „Security in public transportation and traffic“
• Special event by the Munich Initiative against Confidence Tricks (M.I.T.)
• 12 side events

In the run up for the congress more than 3,500 people were registered in total as congress participants and guests including more than 170 foreign participants from 34 countries.

4. The partners of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention

For the Munich congress the same is true once again: the German Congress on Crime Prevention lives on the excellent cooperation between many people and institutions! I would like to thank all partners and sponsors and their employees for their material and ideational support! In this connection I would like to point the detailed explanations of the respective working focus of the German Congress on Crime Prevention partners, printed in this year’s congress catalogue, page 11 et. seq.

The 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention is supported by the Federal Ministry of Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ).

The partners of the congress 2012 are

as hosting event partners:

• State capital Munich
• Free state of Bavaria

as regular event partners:

• DBH-Bildungswerk (educational institute of the professional association for social work, criminal law and crime politics)
• Polizeiliche Kriminalprävention der Länder und des Bundes (Police crime prevention of the States and the Federal Government) (ProPK)
• Stiftung Deutsches Forum für Kriminalprävention (Foundation German Forum for Crime Prevention) (DFK)
• WEISSER RING e.V.

as main sponsor:

• Deutsche Bahn AG

as cooperation partners:

• Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (Federal Agency for Health Education) (BzgA)
• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) (bpb)
• Bündnis für Demokratie und Toleranz (Alliance for democracy and tolerance)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Association for International Collaboration) (giz)
• Deutsche Sportjugend (German Youth Sport) (dsj)
• Deutscher Familiengerichtstag (German Family Court Day) (DFGT)
• Deutscher Jugendgerichtstag der DVJJ (German Youth Court Day of the DVJJ)
• Deutsches Jugendinstitut (German Youth Institute) (dji)
• Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter (voluntary self-control of multimedia service providers) (fsm)
• Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen (criminological research institute Lower Saxony) (KFN)
• proVal – Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse – Beratung – Evaluation (association for social-scientific analysis – advice – evaluation)
• Stiftung Kriminalprävention (Foundation Crime Prevention)

as international partners

• European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS)
• International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)
• International Organization for Victim Assistance (IOVA)
• Korean Institute for Criminology (KIC)
• Violence Prevention Alliance of the World Health Organization (WHO)
• UN-HABITAT

as sponsors

• Deutsche Post DHL
• METRO GROUP
• Munich Re

as cooperating partners of the hosting event partners:

• Kreissparkasse
• MSF
• Münchener Verkehrsbetriebe MVG
• Stadtsparkasse München

5. The 6^th Annual International Forum for Crime Prevention (AIF)

Within the framework of the 17^th German Congress on Crime Prevention, the German Congress on Crime Prevention also organizes the 6^th Annual International Forum for Crime Prevention (AIF). The 14 lectures will each be given half in German and half in English.

Lectures in English:

• „Sustaining and Mainstreaming Pre-crime Prevention: Glasgow, Bogotá and Alberta”, Prof. Dr. Irvin Waller, University of Ottawa, Canada
• “Engaging young people in designing against crime”, Dr. Caroline L. Davey & Andrew B. Wootton, University of Salford, United Kingdom
• Presentation of the International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety 2012, Dr. Paula Miraglia, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime ICPC, Montreal, Canada
• “Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault and Women’s Right to the City: Lessons from the Gender Inclusive Cities Programme”, Dr. Sohail Husain, Analytica Consulting, Hampshire, United Kingdom
• “Building Safer and Inclusive Cities: The Experience of Delhi”, Kalpana Viswanath, Delhi, India
• “Violence Prevention: Experiences from South Africa”, Dr. Tina Silbernagl, GIZ South Africa and Partner from South Africa
• “Preventing violence: an overview”, Dr. Alexander Butchart, World Health Organization (WHO), Genf, Switzerland.