Crime prevention across the world: Taking stock, Evaluation, and future perspectives
Montreal, Canada
The ICPC's 15th Anniversary Colloquium gathered 332 participants from 48 different countries.
The theme of the evolution in crime prevention policies and practices over the past 15 years was at the heart of the debates. The new trends in prevention, action on a local level, mediation, mobilization of local players, evaluation, public/private partnership, human rights, urbanization, and peacekeeping missions were among the main topics tackled during this 15th anniversary.
The 2009 ICPC annual event marked the ICPC's 15th anniversary and a restrospective of the ICPC's 15 years of activities was published.
In response to the evaluation questionnaire, 92% of the respondents said they had increased their knowledge of challenges and problems linked to crime prevention and security. Furthermore, 90% surveyed affirmed that the information delivered would be useful in their work environment.
The event allowed the ICPC to formulate precise recommendations in keeping with the topics brought up in the different sessions and workshops.
Please find below:
- The retrospective of 15 years of activities
- Recommandations and conclusions
- Pictures of the 15th anniversary
- The biographies and the speakers' presentations are available below
Please note that the presentations are in their original language and not all are available online.
Opening Speeches
Claude Dauphin, President of the City Council, City of Montreal
Fadela Amara, Secretary of State for Urban Policies, Ministère du Travail, des Relations sociales, de la Famille, de la Solidarité et de la Ville, France
Robert Lafrenière, Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Quebec
Valérie Sagant, ICPC’s Director General
Plenary Session: The Evolution of Crime Prevention Practices and Strategies from across the World
Michel Marcus, Executive Director, European Forum on Urban Safety (EFUS) and Vice-President, ICPC
Workshop 1: Local Action and Community Mobilization
Peter Dinsdale, Executive Director, National Association of Friendship Centres, Canada
Kelli Coombs, Citizen Security Programme, Trinidad et Tobago
Md. Mokhlesur Rahman, Deputy Inspector General, Dhaka Range, Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh
Julie Anne Boudreau, Professor and Research Chair on Cities and Political Challenges related to Insecurity, National Institute of Scientific Research, Canada & Amadou-Lamine Cissé, Advisor on Partnerships, Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities of Quebec, Canada
Workshop 2: Development of Social Mediation and Innovative Action in Conflict Resolution
Suzanne Djombi, Suzanne Djombi, Communication Officer, CANADEL, Yaoudé, Cameroun
Workshop 3: Prevention Tools: A 15 Year Assessment on Building Capacity of Diverse Actors
Karine Chayer, Université de Montréal, Canada, Representative, Action des femmes handicapées Montreal, Canada
Garner Clancey, Director, CHD Partners, Australia
Hasan Alshehr, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, Arabie Saoudite
Jorge Araya, Director of Public Safety Division, Ministry of Interior, Chile
Workshop 4: Evaluation Methods for Prevention: Issues and Limits
Maria Jose Alcala, Adviser, Ending Violence against Women, United Nations Development Fund for Women
Daniel Sansfaçon, Director of Policy, Research and Evaluation, National Crime Prevention Centre, Canada
Peter Homel, Senior Research Analyst; Research Manager, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia
Workshop 5: Partnerships with Public and Private Partners in Crime Prevention: Successes and Pitfalls
Elizabeth Ward, Chairman of the Board, the Violence Prevention Alliance et consultante à l’Institute for Criminal Justice and Security, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
Juan Ernesto Galdamez, (CECI) - Community-Based Crime and Violence Prevention Project, El Salvador(USAID-RT-CECI)
Jacques Colliard, Security Centre Manager, International Union of Railways, Paris, France
Plenary Session: Crime Prevention: Future Challenges and New Actors in Crime Prevention
Barbara Holtmann, leader of the Crime Prevention Research Group, Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) and Vice-President, ICPC
Dr. Alexander Butchart, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization (WHO)
Workshop 6: New Environments
Paula Miraglia, Executive Director, ILANUD, Brazil
John Domm, Chief of Police, Rama Police Services, Canada
Manjula Gumala, South Africa Police Service (SAPS), South Africa
Ajay Mehra, Director (Honorary), Centre for Public Affairs, India
Workshop 7: New Challenges (no presentation available)
Workshop 8: New Actors
Winifred D. Reed, Chief, Crime Control and Prevention Research Division, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, United States
Nadine Jubb, Regional Coordinator of Study on Women Police Stations, Nicaragua
Adrianus Meliala, Professor in Criminology at the Faculty of Social & Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
Workshop 9: New Practices
Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Board of Directors Member, Crime Prevention Ottawa, Canada
Fernando Carrion, Professor, FLACSO, Ecuador
Sonja Stojanovic, Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, Serbia
Nelson Pellegrino, Chief of Cabinet, Secretary Justice and Human Rights State of Bahia, Brazil
Workshop 10: New Commitments and Challenges for International Frameworks: A Focus on Human Rights
Glenda Cooney, Partner, Pearcey Cooney Consulting and Training, former Deputy Ombudsman and Deputy Children’s Advocate, Saskatchewan, Canada
Juan Salgado, Professor, Legal Studies Department, CIDE, Mexico
Kristina Holgersson, Superintendent, Stockholm County Police, Suède
Katy Rondan, Sociologist, Study on Trafficking of Children and Sexual Exploitation in Cusco and Lima, Peru
Forum: Impact of local leadership on prevention and safety policies
Maria Isabel Gutiérrez, Director, CISALVA Institute, Colombia
Country Sessions: Presentation of Innovative Crime Prevention Experiences
Session: CANADA
Mary Ann Kirvan, Senior Counsel, National Crime Prevention Centre, Department of Public Safety, Canada
Session: BRÉSIL
Sr. Romeu Tuma Junior, Secretario Nacional de Justicia, Gobierno Federal de Brasil
Session : NORVÈGE
Erling Borstad, National Police Directorate, Norway
Erik Nadheim, Executive Director, National Crime Prevention Council (KRAD), Norway
Session International Cooperation
Claudia Laub, President, El Agora, Argentina
McClellan Hall, Project Venture, National Indian Youth Leadership Project, New Mexico
Marlyn J. Jones, Associate Professor, Division of Criminal Justice, California State University, Sacramento, United States
Session : Tools for the Police
Abraham Abugattas, Chief of Cabinet, Sub Secretariat of Carabineros, Ministry of Defence, Chile
Bjorn Barland, Professor, Norwegian Police University College, Norway
Dawei Wang, Director Professor of Criminology and Director of the Division of Postgraduate in Chinese People's Public Security University, China
Session: Tools for Cities in Latin America
Veronica Martinez Solares, Association internationale de l’aide aux victimes, consultant World Bank, Mexico
Elkin Velasquez, Coordinator, Safer Cities, UN HABITAT
Session: Safety Observatories
Christophe Soullez, Head of the Department, National Observatory on Crime, France