Crime Prevention and Community Safety

This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe. The contributions to this volume present a critique of current policy and open up the field of study to new directions.

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Crime Prevention in Britain, 1975-2010 - Nick Tilley
Breaking out, Breaking in and Breaking down
The Road Taken - Tim Hope
Evaluation, Replication and Crime Reduction
Gendering Crime Prevention - Sandra Walklate
Exploring the Tensions between Policy and Process
The Crisis of the Social and the Political Materialization of Community Safety - Eugene McLaughlin
PART TWO: POLICIES, PRACTICES AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY UK
Community Safety and Policing - Tim Newburn
Some Implications of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships - Gordon Hughes
The Future of Community Safety?
A New Deal for Youth? - John Muncie
Early Intervention and Correctionalism
From Voluntary to Statutory Status - Coretta Phillips
Reflecting on the Experience of Three Partnerships Established under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Conflict, Crime Control and the `Re- Construction of State-Community Relations in Northern Ireland - Kieran McEvoy, Brian Gormally and Harry Mika
PART THREE: COMPARATIVE TRENDS AND FUTURES
The Growth of Crime Prevention in France as Contrasted with the English Experience - Adam Crawford
Some Thoughts on the Politics of Insecurity
The Managerialization of Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Trevor Bradley and Reece Walters
The New Zealand Experience
Towards a Replacement Discourse on Community Safety - Ren[ac]e van Swaaningen
Lessons from Holland
Drugs, Risks and Freedoms - Pat O Malley
Illicit Drug `Use and `Misuse under Neo-Liberal Governance
Boundary Harms - Davina Cooper
From Community Protection to a Politics of Value - The Case of the Jewish Eruv
Teetering on the Edge - Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie
The Futures of Crime Control and Community Safety