Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective

Abstract

Introduction: The preventive turn in Europe 1. Situating crime prevention policies in comparative perspective: policy travels, transfer and translation, Adam Crawford 2. The political evolution of situational crime prevention in England and Wales, Tim Hope 3. The preventative turn and the promotion of safer communities in England and Wales: Political inventiveness and governmental instabilities Adam Edwards and Gordon Hughes 4. The development of community safety in Scotland: a different path? Alistair Henry 5. The evolving story of crime prevention in France, Anne Wyvekens 6. Forty years of crime prevention in the Dutch polder Jan van Dijk and Jaap de Waard 7. 'Modernisation' of institutions of social and penal control in Europe: the 'new' crime prevention, Dario Melossi and Rossella Selmini 8. Crime prevention at the Belgian federal level: from a social democratic policy to a neo-liberal and authoritarian policy in a social democratic context, Patrick Hebberecht 9. Going around in circles? Reflections on crime prevention strategies in Germany, Michael Jasch 10. Crime Prevention in Hungary: why is it so hard to argue for the necessity of a community approach? Klara Kerezsi 11. International models of crime prevention, Margaret Shaw