Crime Reduction and Community Safety Labour and the Politics of Local Crime Control

Crime Reduction and Community Safety analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to the present. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it charts the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships, and their subjection to a centrally-imposed performance management regime and to broader plans of police and local government reform. It also examines the imposition of a largely enforcement-oriented attack on anti-social behaviour, and explores labour's attempts to address the causes of crime through a crime and social policy agenda that has crystallised aroung themes of neighbourhood and civil renewal, tackling social exclusion and building social capital.The main focus of the book is upon the unfolding of labour's political project from the centre downwards, but the limitations of this project are exposed through an exploration of a number of key themes. These include the conceptual and practical weaknesses of evidence-based policy, performance management and joined-up government, and the intrinsic political impotence of the 'third way' itself.Gilling, Daniel is the author of 'Crime Reduction and Community Safety Labour and the Politics of Local Crime Control', published 2007 under ISBN 9781843922513 and ISBN 1843922517.