Crime and Insecurity

This book makes a key contribution to an understanding of recent developments in security and safety, approaching the subject from a range of perspectives, across several different disciplines. It looks at broader theoretical and thematic issues, cross-national and pan-European developments and debates in European governance, and finally explores specific examples of local issues of community safety and the broader implications these have.

List of contents

Introduction: Governance and Security Part 1: Crime and Insecurity 1. The Governance and Crime and Insecurity in an Anxious Age: The Trans-European and the Local 2. Violence in the Age of Uncertainty Part 2: The Governance of Crime and Insecurity across Europe 3. Fighting Organised Crime: The European Union and Internal Security 4. Freedom, Security and Justice: Pillar III and Protecting the 'Internal Acquis' 5. Whose Insecurity? Organised Crime, its Victims and the European Union 6. Immigration, Crime and Unsafety 7. Insecurity and the Policing of Cyberspace by David Wall Part 3: The Local Governance of Crime and Insecurity 8. Towards a New Governance of Crime and Insecurity in France 9. Commercial Risk, Political Violence and Policing the City of London 10. The Introduction of CCTV into a Custody Suite: Some Reflections on Risk, Surveillance and Policing 11. Poetics of Safety: Lesbians, Gay Men and Home 12. Issues in Local Community Safety: It's all a Question of Trust?

About the author

Adam Crawford is Professor of Criminal Justice at Leeds University, UK.

Summary

Concerns over insecurity have become central issues in political debates across Europe and the western world, and crucial changes have followed in the wake of these concerns. This book contributes to an understanding of these developments, approaching the subject from a range of perspectives.

Product details

• Assisted by: Adam Crawford (Editor), Crawford Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2002
• EAN: 9781903240489
• ISBN: 978-1-903240-48-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 520 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Europe, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Jurisprudence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Jurisprudence & general issues, Central / national / federal government policies, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, Central government policies, Jurisprudence and general issues