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Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective PDF

298 Pages·2009·1.975 MB·English
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The book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions crime prevention policies. Many of the contributors have been closely involved in crime prevention and community safety policy and research in different countries over a number of years. As such, they are well placed to reflect upon developmental trajectories and the direction of change over the last quarter of a century, as well as to draw out the underlying influences that have shaped such changes. Read more... Prelims; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction. The preventive turn in Europe; Chapter 1. Situating crime prevention policices in comparative perspective: policy travels, transfer and translation; Chapter 2. The political evolution of situational crime prevention in England and Wales; Chapter 3. the preventive turn and the promotion of safer communities in England and Wales: political inventiveness and governmental instabilities; Chapter 4. The development of community safety in Scotland: a different path? Chapter 5. The evolving story of crime prevention in FranceChapter 6. Forty years of crime prevention in the Dutch polder; Chapter 7. 'Modernisation' of institutions of social and penal control in Italy/Europe: the 'new' crime prevention; Chapter 8. Crime prevention at the Belgian federal level: from asocial democratic policy to a neo-liberal and authoritarian policy in a social democratic context; Chapter 9. Going around in circles? Reflections on
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