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" Crime Control Community. "
Gordon Hughes
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BL
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736864
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b556730
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Gordon Hughes
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Crime Control Community.\ Gordon Hughes
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Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013
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(240 pages)
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184392434X
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: 9781843924340
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Cover; Crime Control and Community: The new politics of public safety; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: the community governance of crime control; Chapter 2 Plotting the rise of community safety: critical reflections on research, theory and politics; Chapter 3 'Same bed, different dreams': postmodern reflections on crime prevention and community safety; Chapter 4 The rediscovery of learning: crime prevention and scientific realism; Chapter 5 Power, politics and partnerships: the state of crime prevention on Merseyside. Chapter 6 Community safety in Middle England- the local politics of crime controlChapter 7 Learning from diversity: the strategic dilemmas of community-based crime control; Chapter 8 'People pieces': the neglected but essential elements of community crime prevention; Chapter 9 Representations and realities in local crime prevention: some lessons from London and lessons for criminology; Index.
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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.
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Case studies.
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Community policing.
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Crime prevention.
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HV7431.G673 2013
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Adam Edwards
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Gordon Hughes
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