Community safety - 9781861347299

Community safetyCritical perspectives on policy and practice\nAuthor(s): Peter Squires\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781861347299, 978-1861347299\nSynopsis\nCommunity safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by New Labour in the late '90s. Twenty years on, it is important to ask how the community safety agenda has evolved and developed within local crime and disorder prevention strategies. This book provides the first sustained critical and theoretically informed analysis by leading authorities in the field. It explores the strengths and weaknesses of the community safety legacy, posing challenging questions, such as how and why has community safety policy making become such a contested terrain?What are the different issues at stake for 'provider' versus 'consumer' interests in community safety policy? Who are.