The Politics of Crime and Community

by Gordon Hughes

Overview

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333786970
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

GORDON HUGHES is Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is Co-director of the European Society of Criminology's European Governance of Public Safety Research Network. He is the author of Understanding Crime Prevention and editor of Imagining Welfare Futures (1998). He is co-editor of Criminological Perspectives, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions and Crime Control and Community.
GORDON HUGHES is Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is Co-director of the European Society of Criminology's European Governance of Public Safety Research Network. He is the author of Understanding Crime Prevention and editor of Imagining Welfare Futures (1998). He is co-editor of Criminological Perspectives, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions and Crime Control and Community.

Table of Contents

Crimes, Communities and Criminology
Mapping the Preventative Turban
Multi-Agency Partnerships and the Governance of Security
Expertise and Agency in Community Safety and Crime Control
The Management of the "Anti-Social" in Communities
Strangers and Safe Havens?
Urban Regeneration, Crime Reduction and Communities
Criminological Futures.