The conference covered the following points; up-to-the-minute developments in government policy and strategy; how the police are responding in local communities; how neighbourhood management can address crime and anti-social behaviour; new techniques to address offending behaviour; how to focus resources on protecting repeat victims; how neighourhood wardens can work to mobilise other services; case studies of ‘designing out’ crime; how communities can set their own standards of behaviour and using Anit-Social Behaviour Orders.