Crime Prevention and Community Safety: Politics, Policies and Practices

This text brings together the growing theoretical and empirical literature on crime prevention, providing the first accessible, comprehensive text on a subject which remains high on the public and political agenda. Outlining and evaluating the growing importance of crime prevention within the contemporary British system of crime control, the author draws upon British and comparative international data, situating crime prevention within not only a criminological but also a broader political and social context.

Introduction
1. Conceptualising Crime Prevention and Community Safety
2. The British Experience
3. Situational and Environmental Strategies
4. Social and Communal Strategies
5. Implementation and the Partnership Approach
6. Evaluating Crime Prevention and Community Safety
7. Some Comparative Experiences
8. The Politics of Crime Prevention and Community Safety
Bibliography
Index

• Introduces the student to the inter-connections between politics, policies and practices in the field of crime prevention.
• Places findings within the context of accessible theory, practice and major empirical research findings.
• Outlines and evaluates the growing importance of crime prevention within the contemporary British system of crime control.
• Locates crime prevention within an historical context.