1. Crime Prevention as Law: Rhetoric or Reality? 2. Law and the Management of Places 3. Local Authorities, Crime Reduction and the Law 4. No Through Road: Closing Pathways to Crime 5. Police Performance Targets, Repeat Victimization and Crime Reduction 6. The Law and Mental Disorder: An Uneasy Relationship 7. Paedophilia Prevention and the Law 8. Crime as Pollution: Proposal for Market-Based Incentives to Reduce Crime Externalities 9. Managing Offenders and Reducing Crime: Government Responses to Persistent Offenders and the Development of the National Offender Management Service 10. The Future of Crime Reduction

This innovative and pioneering new book sets out to establish the links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely providing a detailed analysis of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction.