NCJ Number
193215
Journal
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Volume: 9 Issue: 4 Dated: Winter 2001 Pages: 381-400
Date Published
2001
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This article examines the development of policies related to community safety in the United Kingdom and elsewhere from the late 1980’s through the present.
Abstract
The discussion notes that it is erroneous to detach community safety from wider policy developments in either criminal justice or social policy. It notes that the five elements of community safety are that it is a response to fear of crime as well as to crime itself, it emphasizes the role of local governments and community groups, it is essentially normative, it relies on collaborations among organizations and levels of government, and it involves eclectic approaches to crime prevention and control. Policy in the United Kingdom offers an inclusionary vision of crime control. However, its practice may be something different and have an exclusionary effect. Thus, it may represent the convergence of social and criminal justice policies while doing so on neo-liberal rather than welfare liberal terms. It also means that community safety has a closer connection to punitive policies such as mass incarceration than often assumed. 36 references