Crime Control and Community

Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is now regarded 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 of assessing 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.

Adam Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University Gordon Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University Eugene McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy at the Open University Nick Tilley is Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University and a Visiting Professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London Roy Coleman lectures in criminal justice at Liverpool John Moores University Joe Sim is Professor of Criminology, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University Dave Whyte is a Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University Kevin Stenson is Professor of Social Policy and Criminology, and Director of the Social Policy Research Group at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College Janet Foster has recently joined the Sociology Department at the London School of Economics Simon Hallsworth is Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Evaluation Research at London Guildhall University