Safer Communities: Volume 10 Issue 2

Editorial

John Pitts, Tim Bateman

Linking crime prevention with science education: an assessment of a DNA property‐marking crime prevention scheme in secondary school education

Alan Marlow

This article describes the results of a pilot project that linked teaching the principles of DNA with its application to the concept of crime prevention by marking property. It…

Urban gang violence: the implications for practice

Jonathon Toy

The article describes the nature of gang violence in the London Borough of Southwark and presents an intervention framework developed in discussion with practitioners and…

Payment by results in the criminal justice system: can it deliver?

Jon Collins

In December 2010, the Ministry of Justice published its criminal justice reform green paper, Breaking the Cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders…

Partnership working in the ‘Big Society’

Colin Rogers, James Gravelle

As the government's strategy for the implementation of the ‘Big Society’ gains momentum within an increasingly difficult financial framework, this article discusses some of the…

Good cop, Polish cop: findings from an evaluation of the secondment of two Polish police officers to work with the Metropolitan Police Service

David Porteous

This article presents and discusses the findings from an evaluation of the secondment of two Polish police officers to work with the Metropolitan Police Service in a west London…

The prospects and pitfalls of Ken Clarke's package of penal reforms

Roger Matthews, Patrick Slaughter

In the Conservative‐led coalition's recent green paper Breaking the Cycle Ken Clarke aims to justify reducing the scale and costs of imprisonment. These proposals have been met…

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