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Six The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people?
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the role of local authorities in community safety policy development, incorporating findings from some recent research fieldwork. It attempts to show that many local authorities have for some time understood their own contributions to local crime and disorder management, certainly predating the statutory role given them by the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act (CDA). It gives consideration to a number of critical criminological approaches to community safety, alongside this review of community safety policy development, from the 1980s to the CDA. It argues that in order to understand the role of local authorities in community safety, one also has to have a good understanding of the working of local government itself. It further argues that this ‘space’ is now being increasingly contested by elected representatives in ways that directly affect the nature and direction of local community safety policies.
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the role of local authorities in community safety policy development, incorporating findings from some recent research fieldwork. It attempts to show that many local authorities have for some time understood their own contributions to local crime and disorder management, certainly predating the statutory role given them by the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act (CDA). It gives consideration to a number of critical criminological approaches to community safety, alongside this review of community safety policy development, from the 1980s to the CDA. It argues that in order to understand the role of local authorities in community safety, one also has to have a good understanding of the working of local government itself. It further argues that this ‘space’ is now being increasingly contested by elected representatives in ways that directly affect the nature and direction of local community safety policies.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of abbreviations vi
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction: asking questions of community safety 1
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Community safety: an incomplete project?
- ‘You just know you’re being watched everywhere’: young people, custodial experiences and community safety 13
- Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities 35
- Community safety, the family and domestic violence 53
- Ethnic minorities and community safety 71
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Community safety: a contested project?
- The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people? 95
- The police and community safety 111
- Community safety and the private security sector 125
- Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes? 139
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Community safety: a flawed project?
- Community safety and corporate crime 155
- Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety? 169
- Young women, community safety and informal cultures 181
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Community safety: overrun by enforcement?
- Community safety and social exclusion 201
- Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice 219
- Conclusion: contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety? 237
- Index 249
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of abbreviations vi
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction: asking questions of community safety 1
-
Community safety: an incomplete project?
- ‘You just know you’re being watched everywhere’: young people, custodial experiences and community safety 13
- Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities 35
- Community safety, the family and domestic violence 53
- Ethnic minorities and community safety 71
-
Community safety: a contested project?
- The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people? 95
- The police and community safety 111
- Community safety and the private security sector 125
- Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes? 139
-
Community safety: a flawed project?
- Community safety and corporate crime 155
- Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety? 169
- Young women, community safety and informal cultures 181
-
Community safety: overrun by enforcement?
- Community safety and social exclusion 201
- Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice 219
- Conclusion: contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety? 237
- Index 249
