| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the community governance of crime control / A. Edwards and G. Hughes -- Plotting the rise of community safety / G. Hughes -- Same bed, different dreams / E. McLaughlin -- The rediscovery of learning / N. Tilley -- Power, politics and partnerships / R. Coleman, J. Sim and D. Whyte -- Community safety in Middle England / K. Stenson -- Learning from diversity / A. Edwards -- People pieces / J. Foster -- Representations and realities in local crime prevention / S. Hallsworth. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Crime prevention -- Great Britain -- Citizen participation.
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Crime prevention. |
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Great Britain. |
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Political participation. |
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Community policing -- Great Britain.
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Community policing. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Gordon, 1952-
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Edwards, Adam.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crime control and community. Cullompton : Willan, 2002 1903240549 (DLC) 2003265899 (OCoLC)48154152 |
| ISBN |
9781135989439 (electronic book) |
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1135989435 (electronic book) |
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9781843924340 (electronic book) |
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184392434X (electronic book) |
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1903240549 |
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9781903240540 |
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