Strategic directions: planning for safer communities

Speech presented at a seminar "Crime in rural communities: the impact, the causes, the prevention", University of New England, 1 March 1999 by Adam Graycar, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology. Made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The key aims in developing a strategy against crime and disorder in any community focus on: reducing the community's vulnerability to crime and violence; diverting potential offenders into more constructive activities; supporting and empowering those who have become victims of crime. This speech focuses on the first issue