The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based crime control in England as a means of examining the prospects for this approach, its evolving relationship with criminal justice and social policies, to assess the lessons internationally that can be drawn from this in the theory, research methods, politics and practice of crime control, and to present an important new conceptual framework for understanding community-based crime control.

Introduction: community-based crime control in retrospect and prospects by Adam Edwards and Gordon Hughes 1. Plotting the rise of community safety: critical reflections on research, theory and politics by Gordon Hughes 2. 'Same bed, different dreams': postmodern reflections on crime prevention and community safety by Eugene McLaughlin 3. The rediscovery of learning by Nick Tilley 4. People pieces: the neglected but essential elements of community crime prevention by Janet Foster 5. Power, politics and partnerships: the state of crime prevention on Merseyside by Roy Coleman, Joe Sim and Dave Whyte 6. Community safety in England by Kevin Stenson 7. Deficits of power and simulations of control: local crime control strategies in London by Simon Hallsworth 8. The strategic dilemmas of community-based crime control: learning from diversity in the East Midlands by Adam Edwards Conclusion: drawing lessons about community-based crime control and safety politics by Adam Edwards, Gordon Hughes and Henry Shaftoe

Gordon Hughes is Chair in Criminology at Cardiff University, UK.

Adam Edwards is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK.