Community safety : : Critical perspectives on policy and practice /

Community safety : : Critical perspectives on policy and practice / / ed. by Peter Squires.

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Community safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by New Labour in the late '90s. Twenty years on, it is important to ask how the community safety agenda has evolved and developed within local...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Barton, Adrian,
Button, Mark,
FitzGerald, Marian,
Follett, Matt,
Goldsmith, Carlie,
Hale, Chris,
Hancock, Lynn,
Loveday, Barry,
McGhee, Derek,
Measor, Lynda,
Squires, Peter,
Stephen, Dawn E.,
Tombs, Steve,
Walklate, Sandra,
Whyte, Dave,
Wilcox, Paula,
HerausgeberIn:
Squires, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • List of abbreviations
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction: asking questions of community safety
  • Community safety: an incomplete project?
  • ‘You just know you’re being watched everywhere’: young people, custodial experiences and community safety
  • Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
  • Community safety, the family and domestic violence
  • Ethnic minorities and community safety
  • Community safety: a contested project?
  • The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people?
  • The police and community safety
  • Community safety and the private security sector
  • Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes?
  • Community safety: a flawed project?
  • Community safety and corporate crime
  • Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety?
  • Young women, community safety and informal cultures
  • Community safety: overrun by enforcement?
  • Community safety and social exclusion
  • Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice
  • Conclusion: contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety?
  • Index

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