Crime Control and Community

ISBN-13: 9780415627559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Gordon Hughes; Adam Edwards

Opis

Community-based crime prevention has become a policy response to crime and disorder across Western societies. This book brings together findings from studies of community-based crime prevention to examine the prospects for this approach.

Recenzje

'An excellent and coherent collection of essays ... should be essential reading for third year undergraduate students wrestling with these issues.' - Alan Marlow, Community Safety Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: community-based crime control in retrospect and prospects by Adam Edwards and Gordon Hughes  1. Plotting the rise of community safety: critical reflections on research, theory and politics by Gordon Hughes  2. 'Same bed, different dreams': postmodern reflections on crime prevention and community safety by Eugene McLaughlin  3. The rediscovery of learning by Nick Tilley  4. People pieces: the neglected but essential elements of community crime prevention by Janet Foster  5. Power, politics and partnerships: the state of crime prevention on Merseyside by Roy Coleman, Joe Sim  and Dave Whyte  6. Community safety in England by Kevin Stenson  7. Deficits of power and simulations of control: local crime control strategies in London by Simon Hallsworth  8. The strategic dilemmas of community-based crime control: learning from diversity in the East Midlands by Adam Edwards  Conclusion: drawing lessons about community-based crime control and safety politics by Adam Edwards, Gordon Hughes and Henry Shaftoe