Crime prevention as law : rhetoric or reality? / Kate Moss -- Law and the management of places / Martin H. Seddon -- Local authorities, crime reduction, and the law / Stephen Brookes -- No through road : closing pathways to crime / Ken Pease -- Police performance targets, repeat victimization and crime reduction / Steve Everson -- The law and mental disorder : an uneasy relationship / Herschel Prins -- Paedophilia prevention and the law / Dennis Howitt -- Crime as pollution : proposal for market-based incentives to reduce crime externalities / Graham Farrell and John Roman -- Managing offenders and reducing crime : government responses to persistent offenders and the development of the National Offender Management Service / Steve Goode and Stephen Brookes -- The future of crime reduction / Kate Moss.
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This innovative and pioneering new book establishes links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely offering a detailed examination of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction. Providing a sustained analysis, this ground-breaking book considers the social policy, politics and legislation that surround and drive the crime reduction agenda. It analyzes:the creation of 'safe environments' through Town and Country Planning legislationthe role of local authorities in crime reduction initiativesth.