Crime Reduction and Community Safety
Subtitle: Labour and the Politics of Local Crime Control
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781843924364
Subjects: Politics and government; Government policy; Crime prevention; Crime
Description: This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts to subject them to a centrally-imposed performance management regime, through to the emergence of a strong neighbourhoods agenda, combined with the imposition of a largely enforcement-oriented attack on anti-social behaviour. It also explores Labour's attempts to address the causes of crime through a policy agenda that has crystallised around th.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The New Labour project; 3 Imposing the crime reduction agenda; 4 From crime reduction to community safety?; 5 Getting tough? Anti-social behaviour and the politics of enforcement; 6 Going soft? Tackling the causes of Labour's crime and disorder problem; 7 Conclusion: The road to where?; Bibliography; Index.