This book provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime prevention, disorder and community safety in contemporary society. Bringing together nine original articles from leading national and international authorities on these issues, the book examines recent developments in relation to a number of specific groups - the disadvantaged, the socially excluded, youth, women and ethnic minorities.

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: beyond criminology?

ROGER MATTHEWS AND JOHN PITTS

Identity, community and social exclusion

JOCK YOUNG

Joined-up but fragmented: contradiction, ambiguity and

ambivalence at the heart of New Labour's 'Third Way'

ADAM CRAWFORD

Evaluation and evidence-led crime reduction policy

and practice

NICK TILLEY

Crime, community safety and toleration

LYNN HANCOCK AND ROGER MATTHEWS

'Broken Windows' and the culture wars: a response to selected critiques

GEORGE L. KELL1NG

Ethnic minorities and community safety

MARIAN FITZGERALD

The new correctionalism: young people, Youth Justice and

New Labour

JOHN PITTS

Crime victimisation and inequality in risk society

TIM HOPE

Distributive justice and crime

PAUL WILES AND KEN PEASE

Index