Laboratory on Security Policies and Government of the Territory

Valentina Punzo

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The LaboratoryFocus: The local and urban dimension of the Security Policies

Two main aspects:

1. A comparative perspective on Integrated Security Policies focusing on how they can be used to contrast different phenomena (eg. drug trafficking, dependencies, urban decay, prostitution, etc .. ).

2. The formulation and evaluation of a policy intervention

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The structure

Introductive lectures Testimonials by local decision makers,

security policies operators, law enforcement authorities, experts, etc…

hands-on practice

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Expert in the area of Security Policies:

To design, formulate and implement projects and interventions of Public Security

Monitoring practical programs; To analyze the conditions that may threaten the Urban

Security; To detect structural and economic problems at a regional

level; Actively participate in decision-making in order to

explore the most appropriate solutions to problems of Urban Security.

Professional skills

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Main contents The evolution of the sociological and juridical debate about Urban security and insecurity

Multidimensionality of Urban (In)Security

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Security Policies

Direct security policies: prevention and repression by police forces in order to maintain public order (e.g. Tollerance zero)

Prevention Policies and Interventions:Situational Interventions that reduce the opportunity for

a crime to occurStructural Interventions that intefere with the town

planning (block roads, close public areas in the night)

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Created in 1987 the European Forum for Urban Security (Efus) is the oldest international non-governmental organisation working in the field of urban security.

Its network gathers more than 300 European local authorities and aims to strengthen crime reduction policies and to promote the role of local authorities in national and European policies.

A European network of experts from universities or private institutions helps to stimulate and orient policies at a local, national and community level, in the areas of prevention of urban insecurity and crime management, with a view to the progressive development of an international approach.

www.efus.com