Safer Communities: Volume 2 Issue 2
Strapline:
A journal on crime, crime prevention and community safetyTable of contents
Improving the effectiveness of partnerships in community safety
Stuart KirbyThe use of ‘problem solving’ as a strategy to tackle the underlying causes of crime and disorder, rather than continually responding to their symptoms, has suffered widely from…
Gangs, guns and ghettoes: a view from abroad
John PittsThis article examines research on the socio‐economic changes that have generated new offending patterns in the United States and a proliferation of the ‘gang’ phenomenon in that…
The internet and child protection (Part 1)
Peter Kennison, Malcolm ReadIn the first of two articles, the potential of the internet for child victimisation by paedophiles and the challenges for controls that the technology poses are discussed. The…
Cyberstalking: a matter for community safety ‐ but the numbers do not add up
Paul Bocij, Leroy McFarlaneThe advent of the internet has led to the new phenomenon of ‘cyberstalking’. This paper examines the extent of this problem. It is argued that all of the estimates commonly cited…
Sex markets: resilience, toleration and control
Alan MarlowOnce established, street sex markets tend to be very resilient. This article describes the factors that generated an initiative to tackle street prostitution in an inner city…
Chaotic clients: an evaluation of an arrest referral scheme
Margaret MelroseThis article describes the conclusions from interviews with drug users who had been referred to treatment services through an arrest referral scheme. It describes the lifestyles…
ISSN:
1757-8043Online date, start – end:
2002Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Timi Osidipe