Product Description: Do citizen and police initiatives have any impact on the incidence and fear of crime? This volume brings together studies of several community crime prevention programmes that were introduced in major US cities. The book is unique in its breadth of focus: its contributors address a broad and varied audience, including practitioners, policy-makers, and scholars interested in community crime prevention and evaluation research...read more

Product Description: It has become fashionable to assume that concerted action to bring about social reform is a waste of time. If we are to move beyond the current laments about how nothing works anymore, we must view the reform process from the perspective of the community groups involved-those who make it work or fail-and understand how and why they behave as they do...read more

Product Description: Providing a clear picture of trends amongst progressive police authorities, researchers from North America and the United Kingdom address the fundamental question - whether community policing is set to fulfil its many promises. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the authors present a thorough evaluation of the social and organizational processes involved in planning and implementing community policing as well as the effects of such programmes and policies on the police and the community itself...read more

Product Description: This groundbreaking book presents a definitive look at the history of crime prevention strategies and policies in the United States. It analyzes the failures of American crime prevention techniques and possible solutions our country might seek to reduce crime, drugs, and disorder in the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Interviews residents, community leaders, and Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) staff to paint a portrait of what life is like among the gunfire and dangerous housing conditions at three CHA housing projects. (view table of contents)