Appendix B: Selected Community Engagement Resources for PSN
PSN-Related Websites
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) website: http://www.projectsafeneighborhoods.gov.
Weed and Seed and other community engagement resources, U.S. Department of Justice, Community
Capacity Development Office website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo
United States Attorneys Offices (listing of offices and links): http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/offices/index.html
Community Engagement in Planning
Berman, G. & Anderson, D. (1997). Engaging the community, a guide for community justice
planners. Washington , D.C. : U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Community-based planning: promoting a neighborhood response to crime. (1998). In Policy and
Practice. Washington DC: National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA).
Helping Communities Mobilize Against Crime, Drugs, and Other Problems. (1992).
Washington, D.C.: National Crime Prevention Council.
Kretzmann, J. P., & McKnight, J.L. (1993). Building Communities from the Inside Out: A
Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets. Chicago, IL: Institute for Policy Research,
Northwestern University
Overview of community based planning (module 3). (2004). The Pickett Institute Training
Curriculum: Building Capacity for Community Based Strategic Planning. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department
of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
Targeted Community Action Planning Toolkit. (2003). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Retrieved July 2005 at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/tcap/203300.pdf
Research and Evaluation
Braga, A. A. (2001). Measuring the impact of operation ceasefire, reducing gun violence. U.S.
Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
Dalton, E. (n.d.). Targeted crime reduction efforts in ten communities: lessons for the PSN
initiative. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. Referenced in http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usab5001.pdf
Kennedy, D. (1998). Pulling levers: getting deterrence right. National Institute
of Justice Journal. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National
Institute of Justice. July.
Kennedy, D.M., et al. (2001). Developing and implementing operation ceasefire, reducing gun
violence.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. September.
Tita, G.E., Riley, K.J., Ridgeway, G. & Greenwood, P.W. (2005, February). Reducing gun
violence: Operation Ceasefire in Los Angeles. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute
of Justice.
Gun Crime Prevention
Strategies to reduce gun violence (n.d.). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Office
of Justice Programs. Available June 2005 at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/gun_violence
Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. & National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
(2000). Comprehensive Strategy Curriculum: The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violence, and Chronic
Juvenile Offenders. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention. April.
Community Policing and Community Prosecution Approaches
Braga, A. A. Gun violence among serious young offenders. (2004). U.S. Department of Justice,
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Retrieved June 2005 at http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1078
Center for Problem Oriented Policing website: http://www.popcenter.org/default.htm
Skogan, W.G., et al. (2000). Public involvement: community policing in Chicago. (2000).
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. Retrieved July 2005 at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/179557.pdf
Skogan, W.G., et al. (2002). Community policing and the “new immigrants”: Latinos in Chicago.
(2002). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice and Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services. Retrieved July 2005 at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/189908.pdf
Wolf, R.V. & Worrall, J.L. (2004). Lessons from the Field: Ten Community Prosecution
Leadership Profiles. Alexandria, Virginia: American Prosecutors Research Institute. Retrieved December
2004 at http://www.apri.org |
