Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective [Hardcover]

This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis of developments in crime prevention policies across a number of European countries, contributors address questions such as: How has 'the preventive turn' in crime control policies been implemented in various different countries and what have its implications been? What lessons have been learnt over the ensuing years and what are the major trends influencing the direction of development? What does the future hold for crime prevention and community safety?

Contributors explore and assess the different models adopted and the shifting emphasis accorded to differing strategies over time. The book also seeks to compare and contrast different approaches as well as the nature and extent of policy transfer between jurisdictions and the internationalisation of key ideas, strategies and theories of crime prevention and community safety.

Introduction: The Preventive Turn in Europe  1. Situating Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective: Policy Travels, Transfer and Translation  2. The Political Evolution of Situational Crime Prevention in England and Wales  3. The Preventative Turn and the Promotion of Safer Communities in England and Wales: Political Inventiveness and Governmental Instabilities  4. The Development of Community Safety in Scotland: A Different Path?  5. The Evolving Story of Crime Prevention in France  6. Forty Years of Crime Prevention in the Dutch Polder  7. 'Modernisation' of Institutions of Social and Penal Control in Europe: l£™