NCJ Number
178395
Date Published
1998
Length
224 pages
Annotation
This book examines how national crime prevention policy was structured, organized and determined in England and Wales between 1979 and 1997, with a particular focus between 1995 and 1997.
Abstract
The book contains data from agencies that were in a position to influence national crime prevention policy. They included the Home Office, the police service, the probation service, Crime Concern, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, local authority associations and the National Community Safety Network. The book addresses the relationships among these agencies, as well as the role of political ideology in national crime prevention policy. Over the past 18 years in England and Wales, national crime prevention policy was very much influenced by Conservative party ideology and by the identity of the Home Secretary and the Minister responsible for crime prevention. Crime prevention since 1979 has very much focused on situational approaches, with less attention to criminality prevention or offender-oriented approaches. Figures, tables, notes, references, appendixes