This report describes the proceedings of the National Symposium on Community Institutions and Inner-City Crime and highlights 18 programs that are success stories that emerged from a Police Foundation survey of community programs.
This report illustrates the role community institutions play in an inner-city environment: they reduce fear and hopelessness, instill pride in a community, and establish community goals to reduce crime in their neighborhood.
This report describes the proceedings of the National Symposium on Community Institutions and Inner-City Crime and highlights 18 programs that are success stories that emerged from a Police Foundation survey of community programs.
This report illustrates the role community institutions play in an inner-city environment: they reduce fear and hopelessness, instill pride in a community, and establish community goals to reduce crime in their neighborhood.
This report describes the proceedings of the National Symposium on Community Institutions and Inner-City Crime and highlights 18 programs that are success stories that emerged from a Police Foundation survey of community programs.
This report illustrates the role community institutions play in an inner-city environment: they reduce fear and hopelessness, instill pride in a community, and establish community goals to reduce crime in their neighborhood.
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Crime %erol
Can Community
Institutiors Contribute?
By Anne Thomas Sulton
Published by the Police FoundationTABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
PREFACE iv
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v
L_ INTRODUCTION
A. Inner-City Crime Problems
B. Roles of Community Institwions
C. Basis for Symposizam Project
D. Methods in Brief
Il. SITE VISIT REPORTS
A. Introduction 10
B, Families and Friends Programs
1. Children of the Night 2
2. House of UMOJA Boystown 1”
C. Schools and Educational Programs
1,School Program to Educate end Control Drug 23
Abuse—New York City Board of Education and
‘New York City Police Department
2. Special Project on Training of Professionals 7
in Sexual Exploitation Prevention of the
Developmentally Disabled—Bellevuc Hospital Auxiliary
D. Church Programs
1. Centro Sister Isolina Ferre Frograma, 30
del Dispensario—San Antonio, Inc.
2. Community Re-entry— 35
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries Association
E, Business and Employment Frograms
1. Sunbow Foundation a
2. Wildcat Service Corporation 46