This publication, which focuses on crime and violence, is the first of three volumes of the Abridged Edition of the Global Report 2007. The main purpose of this volume is to present, in summary form, the main findings of the Global Report 2007 on crime and violence and, on the basis of this, to suggest policy directions for reducing crime and violence within urban settlements.

Other titles in the Global Report on Human Settlement series:

• Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility 2013
• Cities and Climate Change 2011
• Planning Sustainable cities 2009
• Enhancing Urban Safety and Security 2007 - Vol 1, Vol 2  and Vol 3
• Financing Urban Shelter 2005
• The Challenge of Slums 2003
• Cities in A Globalizing World 2001
• An Urbanizing World 1996