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Zusatztext 'This book comprises a collection of essays by some of the leading experts in the field of community safety and crime prevention from across Europe (with a contribution from a Canadian academic) and provides an extremely informative and useful comparison of the implementation and future direction of crime prevention policy.' - Donald Urquhart! Retired Police Officer and Chair of the Scottish Community Safety Network in SCOLAG! May 2011'Adam Crawford brings together a collection of readings on models of European crime prevention that is relevant for both policy makers and academics. ... Crawford presents a borad! yet detailed! collection! constructed around themes of convergance and divergance! implementation and the interplay between private and public prevention.Overall! this is an important book for scholars and policy makers of crime prevention in Europe! especially those concerned with the transferance! transformation and implementation of prevention policies in differing political and cultural contexts.' - Amy E. Nivette! PhD Candidate! Institute of Criminology! University of Cambridge Informationen zum Autor Adam Crawford is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds. Klappentext Presents a comparative analysis of developments in crime prevention policies across a number of European countries. This work explores and assesses the different models adopted and the shifting emphasis accorded to differing strategies over time. Zusammenfassung The book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore, through a comparative analysis, the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The preventive turn in Europe 1. Situating crime prevention policies in comparative perspective: policy travels! transfer and translation! Adam Crawford 2. The political evolution of situational crime prevention in England and Wales! Tim Hope 3. The preventative turn and the promotion of safer communities in England and Wales: Political inventiveness and governmental instabilities Adam Edwards and Gordon Hughes 4. The development of community safety in Scotland: a different path? Alistair Henry 5. The evolving story of crime prevention in France! Anne Wyvekens 6. Forty years of crime prevention in the Dutch polder Jan van Dijk and Jaap de Waard 7. 'Modernisation' of institutions of social and penal control in Europe: the 'new' crime prevention! Dario Melossi and Rossella Selmini 8. Crime prevention at the Belgian federal level: from a social democratic policy to a neo-liberal and authoritarian policy in a social democratic context! Patrick Hebberecht 9. Going around in circles? Reflections on crime prevention strategies in Germany! Michael Jasch 10. Crime Prevention in Hungary: why is it so hard to argue for the necessity of a community approach? Klara Kerezsi 11. International models of crime prevention! Margaret Shaw ...
