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This paper focuses on the recent history and current operation of a well‐established multi‐agency diversion and crime prevention unit in Northamptonshire in Britain. Four themes are addressed specifically. First, we examine the place of diversionary initiatives in the context of a central government‐driven 'get tough on crime' agenda. Second, the local conditions and struggles over the fate of multi‐agency diversion in Northamptonshire are outlined. Third, we present an empirical overview of the current rationale and routine work of the Diversion Unit. Fourth, we examine the nature of multi‐agency practices on the ground and, in passing, test the claims of the influential academic 'net‐widening' and 'denial of justice'theses on multi‐agency diversion. In conclusion, we argue that a multi‐agency case‐driven approach to diversion has emerged in response to the renewed 'culture of severity'around crime control issues.

The article examines various forms of inspection and regulation of public services. It presents a review of such mechanisms in three areas of public service provision and analyses patterns of both convergence and divergence in the regulation of different public service providers. It offers an overview of the different regimes of inspection/regulation that have emerged in school teaching, policing and medicine. The article examines in a comparative way recent developments in, first, the move from Her Majesty's Inspector (HMI) to the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) in the inspection of schools and teachers, second, the transformation of HMI Constabulary, and third, the debates about clinical audit and the regulation of doctors. A typology of inspection regimes is developed as a possible framework for future research.

Machine generated contents note: Part I Conceptual issues -- Crime prevention in Britain, 1975-2010: breaking out, breaking in and breaking down -- Nick Tiley -- The road taken: evaluation, replication and crime reduction -- Tim Hope -- Gendering crime prevention: exploring the tensions between policy and process -- Sandra Walklate -- The crisis of the social and the political materialization of community safety -- Eugene McLaughlin --Part II Policies, practices and politics in the contemporary United Kingdom -- Community safety and policing: some implications of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 -- Tim Newburn -- Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: the future of community safety? -- Gordon Hughes -- A new deal for youth? Early intervention and correctionalism -- John Muncie -- From voluntary to statutory status: reflecting on the experience of three partnerships established under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 -- Coretta Phillips -- Conflict, crime control and the 're-'construction of state-community relations in Northern Ireland -- Kieran McEvoy, Brian Gormally and Harry Mika --Part III Comparative trends and futures -- The growth of crime prevention in France as contrasted with the English experience: some thoughts on the politics of insecurity -- Adam Crawford -- The managerialization of crime prevention and community safety: the New Zealand experience -- Trevor Bradley and Reece Waiters -- Towards a replacement discourse on community safety: lessons from the Netherlands -- Rene an Swaaningen -- Drugs, risks and freedoms: illicit drug 'use' and 'misuse' under neo-liberal governance -- Pat O'Malley -- Boundary harms: from community protection to a politics of value: the case of the Jewish eruv -- Davina Cooper -- Teetering on the edge: the futures of crime control and community safety -- Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin -- and John Muncie