Why place matters: neighbourhood effects on crime and anti-social behaviour
Crime and anti-social behaviour are top priorities for the residents of ‘mission critical’ neighbourhoods. That is clear from national statistics, public opinion research by the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON) with Public First, and from ICON’s visits programme, during which the Commission heard countless tales of lives blighted or destroyed by local disorder and crime.
As a result, ICON asked Crest Advisory to explore the effects that neighbourhoods have on crime and anti-social behaviour, and the policy implications of this analysis, through an evidence and policy review.
On that basis, the ideas set out here are the authors’ and so should not be ascribed to the Commission as a whole, or to any individual Commissioners or their associated organisations.
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