Abstract
The emergence of the discourse of ‘community safety’, regarded by many as a definitive shift in crime control strategy, has in theory renewed prospects for the flourishing of criminological knowledge as to the incidence of ‘crimes of the powerful’ (that is, crimes committed by corporate and state actors). The paper examines this prospect in the light of the current boom in local criminological knowledge production. In particular it discusses the degree to which community safety agendas have taken account of more general crime/safety threats to local populations posed by powerful corporate and state actors. This investigation is based on an analysis of data generated by crime and disorder partnerships in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the visibility of environmental crimes in these data. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects for the inclusion of crimes of the powerful in future crime reduction agendas.
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