Offering a comprehensive overview of current and historical debates about crime prevention, this text seeks to move beyond the traditional boundaries of criminology and offer a re-framing of the field of crime prevention based on a synthesis of late-1990s thinking in social theory. In particular it examines theorizing about late modernity, risk society, communitarianism and globalization as ways of linking trends in crime prevention to wider social transformations. Gordon Hughes concentrates on the question of the "managerialization" of crime prevention in the later decades of the 20th century, that is the extent to which crime control may become dominated by privatized security and insurance against risks.
- ISBN13 9780335199419
- Publish Date 16 October 1998 (first published 1 October 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 November 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English