Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

`This text represents a major contribution to the literature on crime prevention and community safety. It goes beyond existing literature in bringing together sophisticated theoretical analysis on these topics which are core issues for government at local as well as national levels. And it also brings a much needed international perspective to our understanding of the local governance of crime′ - Kevin Stenson, Professor of Criminology, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

• PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUESCrime Prevention in Britain, 1975-2010 - Nick TilleyBreaking out, Breaking in and Breaking downThe Road Taken - Tim HopeEvaluation, Replication and Crime ReductionGendering Crime Prevention - Sandra WalklateExploring the Tensions between Policy and ProcessThe Crisis of the Social and the Political Materialization of Community Safety - Eugene McLaughlinPART TWO: POLICIES, PRACTICES AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY UKCommunity Safety and Policing - Tim NewburnSome Implications of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships - Gordon HughesThe Future of Community Safety?A New Deal for Youth? - John MuncieEarly Intervention and CorrectionalismFrom Voluntary to Statutory Status - Coretta PhillipsReflecting on the Experience of Three Partnerships Established under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998Conflict, Crime Control and the `Re-′Construction of State-Community Relations in Northern Ireland - Kieran McEvoy, Brian Gormally and Harry MikaPART THREE: COMPARATIVE TRENDS AND FUTURESThe Growth of Crime Prevention in France as Contrasted with the English Experience - Adam CrawfordSome Thoughts on the Politics of InsecurityThe Managerialization of Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Trevor Bradley and Reece WaltersThe New Zealand ExperienceTowards a Replacement Discourse on Community Safety - Ren[ac]e van SwaaningenLessons from HollandDrugs, Risks and Freedoms - Pat O′MalleyIllicit Drug `Use′ and `Misuse′ under Neo-Liberal GovernanceBoundary Harms - Davina CooperFrom Community Protection to a Politics of Value - The Case of the Jewish EruvTeetering on the Edge - Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin and John MuncieThe Futures of Crime Control and Community Safety