Understanding Crime Prevention
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 1998
194 pages
978-0-335-23186-7 (ISBN)
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of current and historical debates about crime prevention in particular and social control more generally. It moves beyond the traditional boundaries of criminology and offers an original re-framing of the field of crime prevention based on a synthesis of exciting new thinking in social theory.
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Gordon Hughes
UNDERSTANDING CRIME PREVENTION
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10/1998
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Content
- Frontcover
- Half title
- Series editor
- Title page
- Dedication & Copyright
- Contents
- Series editor's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter one Mapping the terrain of crime prevention
- Crime prevention: a recent growth industry
- Meanings of crime prevention
- The state, the politics of law and order and crime prevention
- Crime prevention: a new paradigm of crime control?
- Unpacking the concept of crime prevention
- Contexts and discourses of crime prevention
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter two Classicism and the deterrent presences of the modern state
- Introduction
- The first school of criminology?
- Excursus on pre-modern crime control
- The classical theory of crime pervention
- A new governance of crime
- Critical appraisal of classicist crime prevention
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter three Positivism and the cure of 'criminal man'
- Introduction
- The postivist paradigm in criminology
- Positivist crime prevention and the modernist project
- Psychological and sociological positivisms in the twentieth century
- The 'demise' and 're-birth' of the rehabilitative ideal
- Critical appraisal of the positivist crime prevention discourse
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter four Situational crime prevention: the pragmatics of crime control
- Introduction
- A Home Office 'administrative criminology'?
- Lessons from the USA
- Rational choice theory
- 'Some things work': the pragmatics of crime prevention
- Critical appraisal
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter five Multi-agency partnerships: managing corporate crime prevention
- Introduction
- What is multi-agency crime prevention?
- Deciphering the trends in multi-agency crime prevention in the UK
- 'Don't believe the hype'? The academic critique of multi-agency crime prevention
- Life beyond the central state? Local community safety strategies
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter six Communitarianism: bringing 'the social' back into crime prevention?
- Introduction
- The seductions of community
- Basic tenets of communitarianism
- Conservative moral communitarianism
- Critiques of moral authoritarian communitarianism
- Radical left communitarian re-imaginings of the community-crime nexus
- Critical appraisal of the radical left politics of community-based crime prevention
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter seven The futures of crime control in late modernity
- Introduction
- Late modernity, risk society and social control
- Connecting developments in crime prevention to late modernity
- Model I: 'fortress cities', prvatism and social exclusion
- Model 2: 'high trust' societies and authoritarian communitarianism
- Model 3: towards civic and inclusive 'safe' cities?
- Summary
- Further reading
- Postscript: Beyond crime prevention?
- Introduction
- A new paradigm beyond crime prevention?
- Glossary of key terms
- References
- Index
- Backcover
