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Neighbourhood regeneration

Definition

Physical, economic, and social improvement of deprived or high-crime areas, including housing renovation, public space design, employment schemes, and community organisation, as a means of reducing crime concentration.

Related terms

Community safety partnership
A multi-agency governance arrangement that brings together police, local government, health, housing, education, and voluntary bodies to share data and coordinate responses...
Developmental crime prevention
Interventions targeting risk and protective factors at key life-course stages, particularly early childhood and adolescence, to reduce the probability that an individual...
Displacement
The relocation of crime following a prevention intervention. Can take five forms: territorial (to another place), temporal (to another time), target (to...
Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention
A public-health framework applied to crime: primary targets the whole population, secondary targets individuals or communities at elevated risk, tertiary targets known...
Social crime prevention
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  • Social Prevention and Community SafetyPhysical, economic, and social improvement of deprived or high-crime areas, including housing renovation, public space design, employment schemes, and communit...

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