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Crime Reduction and Community Safety - Labour and the politics of local crime control (Hardcover, New)
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Crime Reduction and Community Safety - Labour and the politics of local crime control (Hardcover, New)
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This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from
1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it
follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction
partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts to
subject them to a centrally-imposed performance management regime,
through to the emergence of a strong neighbourhoods agenda,
combined with the imposition of a largely enforcement-oriented
attack on anti-social behaviour. It also explores Labour's attempts
to address the causes of crime through a policy agenda that has
crystallised around themes of social exclusion, social capital,
community cohesion and civil renewal; and that operates through an
architecture that aspires to be joined up centrally and locally,
and neighbourhood-based. The main focus of the book is upon the
unfolding of Labour's 'third way' political project from the centre
downwards, but the limitations of this project are exposed through
an exploration of a number of key themes. These include Labour's
dependence upon the different translations of local practitioners,
with whom it engages in a discursive politics of crime reduction
versus community safety, and through whom the conceptual and
practical weaknesses of evidence-based practice, performance
management and joined-up government are revealed.
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