Community Based Violence Prevention Essay

The World Bank
Department of Finance,
Private Sector and
Infrastructure
Latin American Region

A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR MUNICIPALITIES:
COMMUNITY BASED CRIME AND VIOLENCE
PREVENTION IN URBAN LATIN AMERICA

The World Bank
Department of Finance,
Private Sector and
Infrastructure
Latin American Region

A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR MUNICIPALITIES:
COMMUNITY BASED CRIME AND VIOLENCE
PREVENTION IN URBAN LATIN AMERICA

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This guide is also available in Spanish and in
Portuguese. For more information or comments
write to: Bvanbronkhorst@worldbank.org.

November, 2003
Latin America and Caribbean Region
LCSFP—Urban, Disaster Management, Water
and Sanitation Group.
World Bank
The photographs illustrating this publication were
taken by the young participants of the Human
Rights Observatory Project in several low-income
neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Human Rights Observatory Project Engaged
30 young inhabitants in low-income
neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They were
trained to work as observers of the human rights
situation in their comunities. The project was
developed and coordinated by the NGO “Sou da
Paz” and NEV-Nucleo de Estudos da Violência,
University of Sao Paulo.
Design and Production by: Fisher Design

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A Resource Guide for Municipalities: Community Based Crime and Violence Prevention in Urban Latin America

Preface:
We are most grateful and indebted to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and
Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. In our search for Best Practice in community
crime and violence prevention around the world we came across the excellent and practical
hands-on manuals that institutions developed in the area of community based crime prevention. We immediately felt that their clear and step-by-step approach might also be immensely useful to practitioners grappling with similar issues in the Latin American context.
Part II of the present manual was directly adapted from the...