Community Safety

Community Safety
ISBN-10
190825873X
ISBN-13
9781908258731
Series
Community Safety
Category
Social Science
Pages
392
Language
English
Published
2008-02-29
Publisher
University of Chester
Author
Roger Ellis Elaine Hogard

Description

A volume of conference papers that brings together the latest thinking in the important area of community safety, with contributions from some of the leading internationally respected academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field. The fifteen chapters are organised under four main themes: data and data gathering regarding community safety; studies of innovations in community safety; partnerships for community safety; and approaches to the evaluation of community safety initiatives and programmes. The book should be useful and stimulating for practitioners, academics and policy makers. Contents: Leadership, Community Safety and Delivery: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Leadership Within a Partnership Context, by Stephen Brookes; Quick but Not Dirty: Rapid Evidence Assessments (REAs) as a Decision Support Tool in Social Policy, by E. Burton, G. Butler, J. Hodgkinson and S. Marshall; Appropriate Complexity: Capturing and Structuring Knowledge from Impact and Process Evaluations of Crime Reduction, Community Safety and Problem-Oriented Policing, by Paul Ekblom; The Trident: A Three-Pronged Method for Evaluating Programmes and Initiatives, by Roger Ellis and Elaine Hogard; Public Perceptions of Static and Redeployable CCTV, by A. Rose, M. Gill, K. Collins and M. Hemming; Hands On or Hands Off?: Central Government's Role in Managing CDRPS, by Mike Hough; Community Intelligence in the Policing of Community Safety, by Martin Innes and Colin Roberts; Crime and Disorder Audits and the Problems of Becoming Too Localised, by R.I.Mawby; Partnerships: Looking to the Future, by Judith Million; No Pain, No Gain: The Safer Derbyshire Research and Information Team Story, by Kevin Pellatt; Defining Deviant Lifestyles: Understanding Anti-Social Behaviour and Problem Drug Use Through Critical Methodologies, by Craig Paterson and Allyson MacVean; Back to the Future: Innovation, Evaluation and Reverse Survival Analysis, by Kate Bowers, Shane Johnson and Ken Pease; What Do We Mean by What Works? ?, by Nick Tilley; 'Safer Homes': An Innovative Approach to Tackling Domestic Burglary, by Jeremy Warren and Graeme Gerrard; Mapping the Fear of Crime A Micro-Approach, by Chris Williams

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