Safer Communities: Volume 6 Issue 3

Editorial

Chris Fox, John Pitts

The prostitution strategy: a response

Roger Matthews

Making a reality of rural community safety

Daniel Gilling

This article subjects rural community safety to critical scrutiny. It reviews the background to this rural governmental infrastructure, considers how well it is working and…

‘An effective tool if used appropriately’: but what is an appropriate use of Asbos for young people?

Tim Bateman

This article considers the use of Asbos as a response to problematic behaviour exhibited by children and young people under the age of 18 years. Drawing on research conducted on…

Citizen response policing: an evaluation of a local initiative

Alan Marlow, Ralph Miller, John Pitts

Locally based policing ‐ involving co‐operation with local residents and agencies, is a key requirement of the government's police reform agenda. This article reports the findings…

Young victims of street crime in an East London borough

David Porteous, Caroline Chatwin, Denise Martin, Anthony Goodman

In 2007, seven young people were murdered in London alone, four of them under 16, so there is a pressing need to find out from young people about their experiences and fears in…

Youth victimisation in a shire county

Penny Turner

This article presents the findings of a study of the victimisation of three cohorts of young people living in a county town in the East Midlands. Following a brief review of…

Is it really so different for girls? Challenging misconceptions about young offenders and aggression

Marianne Moore

Despite a tendency by criminologists and practitioners to deny female aggression and assume the inevitability of male aggression, this article, based on interviews with young men…

Schools and the Problem of Crime

Lynne Reynolds