COMMUNITY SAFETY -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: asking questions of community safety -- The beginnings -- Outline questions -- The social divisions of safety -- 2. 'You just know you're being watched everywhere': young people, custodial experiences and community safety -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Late modernity -- Psychosocial issues -- Safety in prison -- Aspirations -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 3. Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities -- Introduction -- Community safety -- Hate crime and community safety -- 4. Community safety, the family and domestic violence -- Feminist theory on the family and male violence agains twomen -- Feminist initiatives against male violence -- Community safety: theory and initiatives -- 'Community' and/or 'safety'? -- Western understandings of 'domestic violence' and the focus on social agencies -- Gendered discourses of caring -- Conclusion -- 5. Ethnic minorities and community safety -- Introduction -- Ethnic minorities in Britain -- Ethnic minorities, crime and community safety to 1997 -- Developments since 1997 -- The impact of 'community safety' policies on ethnic minorities -- Conclusion -- 6. The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people? -- Introduction -- The early years -- The Morgan Report, Safer Cities and the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act -- Critical criminological approaches -- Local authorities and local democracy -- The managerialist context -- Local legitimacy -- Government and governance -- Elected members and the significance of local politics -- Conclusion -- 7. The police and community safety -- Introduction -- 1998 Crime and Disorder Act -- Police BCU boundaries and CDRPs -- The two-tier system and CDRPs -- Going local or going central?.

Police and CDRPs -- Police and partnerships -- Section 17 CDA and enforcement -- Conclusion -- 8. Community safety and the private security sector -- Introduction -- The paradox of falling crime but rising insecurity -- The commodification of security and safety -- Legislative developments -- From privatisation to contestability -- Spatial developments -- The mixed economy of provision in community safety -- Private patrols -- Quasi-public space -- The night-time economy -- Conclusion -- 9. Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes? -- Introduction -- Restructuring drug services: New Labour writ large? -- Outreach work, managerialism and the criminal justice system -- The colonisation of outreach drug work by Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships -- One size fits all: a too simple solution to a complex problem? -- 10. Community safety and corporate crime -- Introduction -- Corporate threats to community safety -- Corporations, responsibilisation and neo-liberalism -- Legitimate and illegitimate targets of crime control -- Conclusion: redefining 'community safety'? -- 11. Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety? -- Introduction -- Whose community? -- Whose safety? -- Whose protection? -- Conclusion: the state, victimhood and community safety -- 12. Young women, community safety and informal cultures -- Introduction -- Background and methodology -- Community safety -- Women's strategies -- The 'names' -- Young women and the 'names' -- Community safety and the estates -- Individualism -- The 'whole community' -- The nature of community and the nature of family -- Conclusion -- 13. Community safety and social exclusion -- Urban divisions and victimisation -- Social inclusion, urban regeneration and its exclusionary effects -- Social exclusion and injustice.

'Social Inclusion', criminalisation, crime and disorder -- Whose safety? -- Conclusion -- 14. Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice -- The 'rights' and wrongs of 'community safety' -- Every child matters? -- The less-than-holy grail of 'community' -- Time to rethink 'community safety' for young people -- 15. Conclusion: contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety? -- From this volume -- Index.