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Crime Control and Community - Hardcover

 
9781903240540: Crime Control and Community
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1903240549 ISBN 13: 9781903240540
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based crime control in England as a means of examining the prospects for this approach, its evolving relationship with criminal justice and social policies, and to assess the lessons internationally that can be drawn from this in the theory, research methods, politics and practice of crime control. At the same time the book advances an important new conceptual framework for understanding community-based crime control, focusing on an understanding of the diversity of control and preventative strategies, the locally particular conditions in which they are conducted, and the degree of choices open to local political actors involved in their conduct. Understanding diversity in this way is central to drawing lessons about the transferability of crime control theory and practice from one social context to another, avoiding the naïve emulation of practices in different contexts.

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About the Author

Gordon Hughes is Chair in Criminology at Cardiff University, UK.

Adam Edwards is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1903240549
ISBN 13 
9781903240540
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Editor
Hughes Gordon, Edwards Adam