All posts in Winter 2011

Crime prevention and public safety programmes can take many forms, from reducing opportunities for crime through improving the environment and ensuring better urban planning, to early intervention and

“You see that guy watching the store? He’s just staring at us.” “That one, wearing the grey coat, sitting on the bench in the mall right in

The HERO Awards are a community event that acknowledges the simple fact that not all heroes wear spandex or have secret identities. Oftentimes those who make the biggest

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) nearly a million people worldwide commit suicide each year. Out of that number, about 30,000 people reportedly kill themselves each year

What is inhalant abuse?

The often negative ways that the media portray mental illnesses, is something of which many mental health consumers are painfully aware.  Distorted and demeaning images of mental illnesses

On Saturday, September 11, 2010, Safe City Mississauga and University of Toronto Mississauga hosted our first Crime Prevention Conference. An integrated and shared vision of how local

When it comes to crime, prevention is usually the first and foremost concern in every community however; even with the best prevention efforts the

Most individuals in law enforcement, politics, education, and research agree that Mental Health issues have an important impact on the creation and maintenance of criminal behaviour. This may