Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions / Edition 1

by Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin, John Muncie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761974086
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2002
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Eugene Mc Laughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

Table of Contents

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 Mc Laughlin
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 Mc Evoy, 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 Mc Laughlin and John Muncie
The Futures of Crime Control and Community Safety

Editorial Reviews

Sixteen chapters comprise a textbook that was specifically designed for the Open U. (UK) postgraduate course . The papers avoid any rigid adherence to a specific theoretical perspective, exploring different theoretical, empirical, and comparative analyses on questions of criminal justice. Sections focus on conceptual issues, policies and practices in the UK, and non-UK case studies. Topics related to gender, youth intervention, state-community relations in Northern Ireland, and drug use are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

‘This text represents a major contribution to the literature on crime prevention and community safety. It goes beyond existing literature in bringing together sophisticated theoretical analysis on these topics which are core issues for government at local as well as national levels. And it also brings a much needed international perspective to our understanding of the local governance of crime' - Kevin Stenson, Professor of Criminology, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

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