The politics of crime and community

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Organization of the Book -- 1. Crimes, Communities and Criminology -- Introduction -- Beyond Criminal Justice? Exploring Governance and the Preventive Turn -- Radical Communitarianism, 'Safe Communities' and the Politics of Articulation -- Towards a Critical Realist Criminology -- Conclusion -- 2. Mapping the Preventive Turn -- Introduction -- Grand Narratives of Transformation and the Preventive Turn in Criminology -- Mapping the Historical and Institutional Context: a National Case Study -- The Return of the Convergence Thesis? Comparative Geo-histories of Safety and Control in Europe -- Conclusion -- 3. Multi-Agency Partnerships and the Governance of Security -- Introduction -- Performance Management and the 'What Works' Paradigm -- Partnerships and the New Community Governance -- Partnerships and the De-Monopolizing of Crime Prevention -- Adaptation and Denial in Community Safety Partnerships -- Conclusion -- 4. Expertise and Agency in Community Safety and Local Crime Control -- Introduction -- Doing Community Safety Work -- The Pluralization of Community Safety and Local Policing on the Ground -- Conclusion -- 5. The Management of the 'Anti-Social' in Communities -- Introduction -- What is 'Anti-Social Behaviour'? Navigating a Criminological Quagmire -- Intellectual and Political Roots of the Problem of the Anti-Social -- New Labour's Communitarian Crusade and Anti-Social Behaviour -- The Production of Behaviour Control in Specific Local Contexts -- Nuisance, Tolerance and Respect in Late Modern Societies -- Conclusion -- 6. Strangers and Safe Havens? Asylum Seeking, Migration and Community Safety -- Introduction -- Criminology, 'the Stranger' and Asylum Seeking -- The Politics of 'Othering'.