New website fosters South-South cooperation

The South-South Crime Prevention Project has developed a website to facilitate the exchange of information and scholarly debate between crime prevention practitioners and researchers in the Caribbean and Southern Africa, two regions with high levels of crime.

The website www.southsouthcrime.org focuses on four themes: community policing, violence prevention, culture of legality/conflict resolution and offender reintegration. Users can also access examples of evaluated or reviewed crime prevention interventions conducted in the Caribbean and Southern Africa, as well as to crime statistics, legislation and scholarly articles.

In the coming months, the Project is scheduled to evaluate 40 interventions -20 in each region-and showcase them on the South-South cooperation website. The Project also plans to expand the website's Caribbean section and to add information on all countries in Southern Africa.

UNODC and an alliance of organizations working on crime prevention activities support the South-South Crime Prevention Project. The Project is coordinated at the regional level by the Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the Centre for Studies in Public Safety and Justice, University of West Indies, Jamaica.