Safer Communities: Volume 2 Issue 2

Editorial

Alan Marlow

Improving the effectiveness of partnerships in community safety

Stuart Kirby

The use of ‘problem solving’ as a strategy to tackle the underlying causes of crime and disorder, rather than continually responding to their symptoms, has suffered widely from…

Gangs, guns and ghettoes: a view from abroad

John Pitts

This article examines research on the socio‐economic changes that have generated new offending patterns in the United States and a proliferation of the ‘gang’ phenomenon in that…

The internet and child protection (Part 1)

Peter Kennison, Malcolm Read

In the first of two articles, the potential of the internet for child victimisation by paedophiles and the challenges for controls that the technology poses are discussed. The…

Cyberstalking: a matter for community safety ‐ but the numbers do not add up

Paul Bocij, Leroy McFarlane

The advent of the internet has led to the new phenomenon of ‘cyberstalking’. This paper examines the extent of this problem. It is argued that all of the estimates commonly cited…

Sex markets: resilience, toleration and control

Alan Marlow

Once established, street sex markets tend to be very resilient. This article describes the factors that generated an initiative to tackle street prostitution in an inner city…

Chaotic clients: an evaluation of an arrest referral scheme

Margaret Melrose

This article describes the conclusions from interviews with drug users who had been referred to treatment services through an arrest referral scheme. It describes the lifestyles…

On law and kindred matters

Paul Infield

Working it Out: A Handbook for Violence Prevention in Work with Young People

Brian Williams