Safer Communities: Volume 2 Issue 1

Editorial

Alan Marlow

The Audit Commission and the ills of local community safety: an accurate diagnosis?

Daniel Gilling

This article reviews the progress of local partnership to date, first by examining the contents of the recent Audit Commission review report on Community Safety Partnerships, and…

A review of the draft community safety strategy for Northern Ireland

Brian Gormally

This article reviews the draft community safety strategy for Northern Ireland and argues that it is over centralised and lacks effective links to neighbourhood level. It also…

The good, the bad or the ugly? What will the new planning out crime guidance be like and what should it be like?

Kate Moss

In December 2001 the then Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR but now currently the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister, hereafter referred to as…

Street prostitution and community safety: a case of contested meanings?

Margaret Melrose

This article considers the issues of ‘street prostitution’ and ‘community safety’ in terms of the discursive construction of each. It argues that in the late‐modern age, concepts…

Professionalising responses to domestic violence in the UK: definitional difficulties

Jill Radford

Effective professional approaches to the issue of domestic violence are in danger of being undermined by a lack of clarity in definition. This article argues that the gender…

A view from the street: homelessness, begging and drug misuse

Garry Banks, Sandra Jowett, Alyson Brown, Jill Goodall

This article summarises the findings of a research study conducted to establish the links between homelessness, begging and drug misuse. It concludes that drug misuse is…

On reform and reformers

Paul Infield

Changing Policing: Revolution not Evolution

Stuart Kirby

Crime Prevention Studies, Volume 13: Analysis for Crime Prevention

David Porteous