Safer Communities: Volume 5 Issue 3

Editorial

John Pitts, Chris Fox

In search of a profession

Simon Harding

Simon Harding shares his opinions on the development and future of the community safety profession.

Averting ghettoisation: the role of educational services in reducing crime and victimisation in the ethnic minority community in Anderlecht, Brussels

John Pitts, David Porteous

A successful multi‐level intervention in a high crime low income, innercity Brussels neighbourhood, with a large minority ethnic community, has important implications for how…

Hands on or hands off? Central government's role in managing CDRPs

Mike Hough

This paper examines some possible reasons for what the author sees as a tendency for underperformance in some crime and disorder reduction partnerships (CDRPs) ‐ across England…

Responding to anti‐social behaviour: reconciling topdown imperatives with bottom‐up emotions

Kathryn Farrow, David Prior

This article explores understandings of and responses to anti‐social behaviour (ASB) among members of a local authority specialist ASB unit, and the perceptions and experiences of…

Responding to the unequal distribution of crime

Lucy Stone

In this article Lucy Stone discusses the uneven distribution of crime and concern about crime and how it is amplified by disadvantage. She suggests a new way of viewing the impact…

Housing drug and alcohol users

Michelle Duffin

In this article Michelle Duffin reports on the difficulties of finding adequate housing for vulnerable groups including drug users and ex drug users.

Involving the community in crime and disorder reduction

Sarah Morton

In what will be a regular column examining key issues facing community safety practitioners, Sarah Morton from Matrix Research and Consultancy discusses community involvement in…

Book Review