Crime Reduction and Community Safety - Labour and the Politics of Local Crime Control

Zusatztext 'Daniel Gilling's text provides us with the definitive criminological analysis of New Labour's national project on community safety and crime prevention over the last decade. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style! it will become a classic case study of the contradictions of this UK government's ambitious if flawed governmental experiment in local crime control. Gilling's careful and penetrating diagnosis of government rhetoric and policy is measured! provocative and ultimately profoundly disturbing. 'Must read' for students! teachers! researchers and! you'd hope! practitioners and policy makers in the UK and beyond.' - Professor Gordon Hughes! Cardiff University Informationen zum Autor Daniel Gilling is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Plymouth, UK. Zusammenfassung This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. It unfolds Labour's 'third way' political project from the centre downwards, and exposes the limitations of this project through an exploration of a number of key themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Labour's political 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 problem 7. Losing control: from politics into practice 8. Leaving its mark: Labour and the new landscape of local crime control

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Gilling, Daniel (University of Plymouth) Gilling, Gilling Daniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9781843922520
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-252-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Political Parties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Central / national / federal government policies, Political parties and party platforms, Central government policies