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Informationen zum Autor 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 Culture and 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. Klappentext This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe. The contributions to this volume present a critique of current policy and open up the field of study to new directions. Zusammenfassung This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe. The contributions to this volume present a critique of current policy and open up the field of study to new directions. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Crime Prevention in Britain, 1975-2010 - Nick Tilley Breaking out, Breaking in and Breaking down The Road Taken - Tim Hope Evaluation, Replication and Crime Reduction Gendering Crime Prevention - Sandra Walklate Exploring the Tensions between Policy and Process The Crisis of the Social and the Political Materialization of Community Safety - Eugene McLaughlin PART TWO: POLICIES, PRACTICES AND POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY UK Community Safety and Policing - Tim Newburn Some Implications of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships - Gordon Hughes The Future of Community Safety? A New Deal for Youth? - John Muncie Early Intervention and Correctionalism From Voluntary to Statutory Status - Coretta Phillips Reflecting on the Experience of Three Partnerships Established under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 Conflict, Crime Control and the `Re-¿Construction of State-...
