Adam Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4201005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5792-5977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 321 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities
This study explores people’s thresholds and reasons for calling the police in response to incidents invoking uncertainty. It draws upon focus group deliberations and a nationally representative survey in which participants were presented with scenarios invoking vulnerability via depictions of disorderly behaviour and potentially harmful activity. People want and expect police to respond rapidly in situations where vulnerable people are identified…
What service should police provide? Towards a minimum policing standard
Public confidence in the police: Using opinion survey data to explore the current ‘moment’ in British policing
On many accounts British policing is currently experiencing a legitimacy crisis, a claim frequently evidenced by data from opinion surveys. Such surveys have been in the field for more than half a century, generating a wealth of data demonstrating the waxing and waning of 'trust and confidence' in police. Yet, few nationally representative surveys field items that cover the full range of public attitudes towards police. In this paper, we present …
Restorative justice, voluntariness and the ongoing challenges of institutionalisation
Cultivating ‘communities of practice’ to tackle civic policy challenges: Insights from local government-academic collaboration in Leeds
Drawing on experiences from one English city, we advance a framework which offers promising insights into integration of organisational and relational facilitators of research-policy partnerships in responding to municipal policy challenges
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police
Police are increasingly called upon to manage a host of social ills and vulnerable people, often filling gaps left by the withdrawal of other public and third sector services. Yet, there remains a distinct lack of critical assessment of what problems the police are expected to solve and whether they are the most appropriate agency to do so. This article highlights the need to rethink policing through multilateral networks that explicitly locate p…
Police et université: Retour réflexif sur la « coproduction de savoirs » en sécurité
International audience
From victimisation to restorative justice: Developing the offer of restorative justice
From victimisation to restorative justice: developing the offer of restorative justice Restorative justice services have expanded in England and Wales since the Victim’s Code 2015. Yet evidence from the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows that in 2016-2017 only 4.1 per cent of victims recall being offered such a service. This article presents the evidence from an action research project set in three police forces in England and Wales, which …
Spaces apart: Public parks and the differentiation of space in Leeds, 1850–1914
While the Victorian ideal of the public park is well understood, we know less of how local governors sought to realize this ideal in practice. This article is concerned with park-making as a process – contingent, unstable, open – rather than with parks as outcomes – determined, settled, closed. It details how local governors bounded, designed and regulated park spaces to differentiate them as ‘spaces apart’ within the city, and how this programme…
Societal Impact as ‘Rituals of Verification’ and The Co-Production of Knowledge
Thinking about and operationalizing societal impacts have become defining characteristics of university-based research, especially in the United Kingdom. This paper reflects on this unfolding shift in the conceptualization and practice of research with particular regard to criminology. It traces the development of new regulatory regimes that seek to measure research performance and render impact auditable. It argues that these ‘rituals of verific…
Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice: International Debates
Everyday encounters with difference in urban parks: Forging ‘openness to otherness’ in segmenting cities
In a context of hyper-diversity and social polarisation, it has been suggested that public parks constitute crucial arenas in which to safeguard deliberative democracy and foster social relations that bind loosely connected strangers. Drawing on empirical research, we offer a more circumspect and nuanced understanding of the – nonetheless vital – role that parks can play in fostering civic norms that support the capacity for living with differenc…
Park futures: Excavating images of tomorrow’s urban green spaces
British urban parks are a creation of the 19th century and a central feature in the Victorian image of the city. In the UK, parks are at a critical juncture as to their future role, prospects and sustainability. This article contributes to renewed interest in ‘social futures’ by thinking forward through the past about the trajectory of Victorian public parks. We outline six images of what parks might become, derived from traces in history and ext…
Thinking forward through the past: Prospecting for urban order in (Victorian) public parks
Supplementing familiar linear and chronological accounts of history, we delineate a novel approach that explores connections between past, present and future. Drawing on Koselleck, we outline a framework for analysing the interconnected categories of ‘spaces of experience’ and ‘horizons of expectation’ across times. We consider the visions and anxieties of futures past and futures present; how these are constituted by, and inform, experiences tha…
Boundary crossing: Networked policing and emergent ‘communities of practice’ in safeguarding children
Child safeguarding has come to the forefront of public debate in the UK in the aftermath of a series of highly publicised incidents of child sexual exploitation and abuse. These have exposed the inadequacies and failings of inter-organisational relations between police and key partners. While the discourse of policing partnerships is now accepted wisdom, progress has been distinctly hesitant. This paper contributes to understanding both the chall…
Nipping Crime in the Bud? The Use of Antisocial Behaviour Interventions with Young People in England and Wales
This article presents findings from a study of the use of antisocial behaviour (ASB) warning letters, Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs) and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) with 3,481 young people from four large metropolitan areas in England, which challenge dominant narratives about their use and impact. The findings unsettle prevailing beliefs concerning the targeted use of ASB interventions to tackle low-level incivilities and the tim…
The Future(s) of Security Studies
This article provides an introduction to the Special Issue as a whole by situating the collection of essays in the wider context of advances and debates within security studies and allied security-related research. It draws particularly upon themes and trends within and between international relations and criminology and their convergence around the field of security studies. It goes on to consider possible lines of future development in security…
Mapping the Contours of ‘Everyday Security’: Time, Space and Emotion
This article develops a conceptual framework that prompts new lines of enquiry and questions for security researchers. We advance the notion of ‘everyday security’, which encompasses both the lived experiences of security processes and the related practices that people engage in to govern their own safety. Our analysis proceeds from a critical appraisal of several dominant themes within current security research, and how ‘everyday security’ addre…
Temporality in restorative justice: On time, timing and time-consciousness
Restorative justice has been the subject of much theoretical criminological debate and policy innovation. However, little consideration has been given explicitly to issues of temporality and the challenges they raise. Yet, at its heart, restorative justice provides a rearticulated understanding of the relationship between the past and future; one that seeks to marry otherwise tense and ambiguous dynamics of instrumental and moral reasoning, along…
Youth Offending and Restorative Justice
This book provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of recent changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the criminal justice system, and the implementation of referral orders and youth offender panels. Taken together, this amounts to the most radical overhaul of the youth justice system in the last half century, fundamentally c…
Crime and Insecurity
Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice
Introduction, Adam Crawford and Anthea Hucklesby 1. Legitimacy and compliance: the virtues of self-regualtion, Tom Tyler 2.Compliance with the Law and Policing by consent: Notes on Police and Legal Legitimacy, Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Mike Hough and Katherine Murray, 3. Legitimacy of Penal Policies: Punishment between normative and Empirical Legitimacy, Sonja Snacken, 4. Questioning the Legitimacy of Compliance: A Case Study of the Banking…
Peur du crime et insécurité: Quelques réflexions sur les tendances de la recherche anglo-américaine
Dans un contexte où le débat public sur l’insécurité s’accroît ainsi que l’intérêt de la recherche pour la peur du crime, cet article examine et critique certains développements récemment apparus dans la littérature et la recherche anglo-saxonne. Il étudie la signification des perceptions du public en matière d’insécurité et de peur du crime, comment nous mesurons l’insécurité et comment nous interprétons les résultats des recherches, puis il exa…
Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy’
The contemporary city is a contested space and its governance is the subject of complex global economic forces, local interests and political struggles as well as a response to the changing face of governing alliances in residential and commercial areas, forms of consumption, commercially-generated crime and disorder and cultural expressions of leisure. This article seeks to provide a thematic introduction to the manner in which the regulation of…
Governing Through Anti-social Behaviour: Regulatory Challenges to Criminal Justice
The ‘anti-social behaviour’ agenda in Britain and the introduction of diverse new powers and regulatory tools represent a major challenge to traditional conceptions of criminal justice. This article argues that the language of regulation has been appropriated and deployed to cloak and legitimise ambitious (yet ambiguous) bouts of hyper-active state interventionism. These may have more to do with quests to demonstrate government’s capacity to be s…
Networked governance and the post-regulatory state: Steering, rowing and anchoring the provision of policing and security
This article engages with insights from the ‘(post-) regulatory state’ literature in critically exploring the changing face of policing and security. It subjects notions of ‘networked governance’ and ‘responsive regulation’ to empirical examination in the British context. The article illustrates the manner in which state anchoring constitutes a distinctive characteristic of contemporary security governance. It suggests that far from state withdra…
Mapping the Contours of ‘Everyday Security’: Time, Space and Emotion
This article develops a conceptual framework that prompts new lines of enquiry and questions for security researchers. We advance the notion of ‘everyday security’, which encompasses both the lived experiences of security processes and the related practices that people engage in to govern their own safety. Our analysis proceeds from a critical appraisal of several dominant themes within current security research, and how ‘everyday security’ addre…
Contractual Governance’ of Deviant Behaviour
This paper seeks to analyse and make sense of the growing role and implications of forms of ‘contractual governance’ that are emerging in diverse fields of social life and public policy in England and Wales, both within and beyond criminal justice. Collectively, these modes of control mimic and deploy ‘contracts' and ‘agreement’ in the regulation of deviant conduct and disorderly behaviour. The rise of contractual governance is explored against t…
Governing Through Anti-social Behaviour: Regulatory Challenges to Criminal Justice
The ‘anti-social behaviour’ agenda in Britain and the introduction of diverse new powers and regulatory tools represent a major challenge to traditional conceptions of criminal justice. This article argues that the language of regulation has been appropriated and deployed to cloak and legitimise ambitious (yet ambiguous) bouts of hyper-active state interventionism. These may have more to do with quests to demonstrate government’s capacity to be s…
Additional Security Patrols in Residential Areas: Notes from the Marketplace
This article presents an overview of an emerging market in residential security patrols in England and Wales. Drawing on recent empirical research, it outlines the fragmented and uneven nature of current developments and highlights coordination deficits and the absence of regulatory oversight. The research illustrates how the growth in competitive relations between different providers of patrol can stymie the development of effective networked se…
The Partnership Approach To Community Crime Prevention: Corporatism At the Local Level
Boundary crossing: Networked policing and emergent ‘communities of practice’ in safeguarding children
Child safeguarding has come to the forefront of public debate in the UK in the aftermath of a series of highly publicised incidents of child sexual exploitation and abuse. These have exposed the inadequacies and failings of inter-organisational relations between police and key partners. While the discourse of policing partnerships is now accepted wisdom, progress has been distinctly hesitant. This paper contributes to understanding both the chall…
Temporality in restorative justice: On time, timing and time-consciousness
Restorative justice has been the subject of much theoretical criminological debate and policy innovation. However, little consideration has been given explicitly to issues of temporality and the challenges they raise. Yet, at its heart, restorative justice provides a rearticulated understanding of the relationship between the past and future; one that seeks to marry otherwise tense and ambiguous dynamics of instrumental and moral reasoning, along…
Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy’
The contemporary city is a contested space and its governance is the subject of complex global economic forces, local interests and political struggles as well as a response to the changing face of governing alliances in residential and commercial areas, forms of consumption, commercially-generated crime and disorder and cultural expressions of leisure. This article seeks to provide a thematic introduction to the manner in which the regulation of…
Thinking forward through the past: Prospecting for urban order in (Victorian) public parks
Supplementing familiar linear and chronological accounts of history, we delineate a novel approach that explores connections between past, present and future. Drawing on Koselleck, we outline a framework for analysing the interconnected categories of ‘spaces of experience’ and ‘horizons of expectation’ across times. We consider the visions and anxieties of futures past and futures present; how these are constituted by, and inform, experiences tha…
Dispersal Powers and the Symbolic Role of Anti‐Social Behaviour Legislation
This article considers the development and use of dispersal powers, introduced by the Anti‐Social Behaviour Act 2003, and situates these within the context of wider legislation and policy initiatives. It explores the ways in which the powers have been interpreted by the courts and implemented by police and local authorities. The article critically analyses the manner in which the powers: introduce ‘public perceptions’ as a justification for polic…
Everyday encounters with difference in urban parks: Forging ‘openness to otherness’ in segmenting cities
In a context of hyper-diversity and social polarisation, it has been suggested that public parks constitute crucial arenas in which to safeguard deliberative democracy and foster social relations that bind loosely connected strangers. Drawing on empirical research, we offer a more circumspect and nuanced understanding of the – nonetheless vital – role that parks can play in fostering civic norms that support the capacity for living with differenc…
Fixing Broken Promises: Neighbourhood Wardens and Social Capital
This article explores the growing emphasis upon the policing of incivilities and anti-social behaviour, situating this within debates about the role of social capital in the construction and maintenance of social order. It outlines a critique of certain dominant assumptions within debates about social capital, notably with regard to crime and security. Nevertheless, social capital is used as a lens through which to consider some of the questions …
Community safety and the quest for security: Holding back the dynamics of social exclusion
This paper casts a deliberately critical eye over the government's ‘community safety'proposals as outlined in the UK Crime and Disorder Act 1998, their philosophical origins, their ambiguities and their potential for social exclusion. After an evaluation of some specific proposals in the Act, the paper goes on to suggest that community safety elements within the Act and associated policy initiatives embody three principal dynamics, namely appeals…
Vulnerability and Policing: Rethinking the Role and Limits of the Police
Police are increasingly called upon to manage a host of social ills and vulnerable people, often filling gaps left by the withdrawal of other public and third sector services. Yet, there remains a distinct lack of critical assessment of what problems the police are expected to solve and whether they are the most appropriate agency to do so. This article highlights the need to rethink policing through multilateral networks that explicitly locate p…
Park futures: Excavating images of tomorrow’s urban green spaces
British urban parks are a creation of the 19th century and a central feature in the Victorian image of the city. In the UK, parks are at a critical juncture as to their future role, prospects and sustainability. This article contributes to renewed interest in ‘social futures’ by thinking forward through the past about the trajectory of Victorian public parks. We outline six images of what parks might become, derived from traces in history and ext…
Involving Lay People in Criminal Justice
Youth offending and restorative justice: Implementing reform in youth justice
Introduction 1. The origins and development of youth justice 2. Restorative justice: practices and ideals 3. Implementing restorative justice initiatives 4. Referral orders and youth offender panels 5. Organising the delivery of referral orders 6. Referral orders and the courts 7. Youth offender panels 8. Contracts and their implementation 9. Community panel members 10. Young people and their families 11. Victims and Referral Orders 12. Implement…
Recent Developments in Restorative Justice for Young People in England and Wales: Community Participation and Representation
Journal Article Recent Developments in Restorative Justice for Young People in England and Wales: Community Participation and Representation Get access Adam Crawford, Adam Crawford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Tim Newburn Tim Newburn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 June 2002, Pages 476–495, https://doi.org…
Justice De Proximité - The Growth of ‘Houses of Justice’ and Victim/Offender Mediation in France: A Very Unfrench Legal Response
Initiatives in mediation and reparation have developed significantly across diverse European countries, none more so than in France over the last decade. This article seeks to situate and explain the recent growth in France of the ‘ Maisons de Justice’ (Houses of Justice) and victim/offender mediation they offer. This explanation is connected to an understanding of the increasingly dominant discourse of ‘ justice de proximité’, its dynamics and i…
Inter-Agency Co-Operation and Community-Based Crime Prevention
The role of 'inter-agency' co-operation in the sphere of crime prevention has been promoted increasingly by central and local government policy initiatives in recent years. In this paper we consider a number of theoretical issues raised by the examination of power relations in interorganizational contexts and the definitional processes through which local crime 'problems' are identified and translated into policies and practice. The work of Geoff…
Public confidence in the police: Using opinion survey data to explore the current ‘moment’ in British policing
On many accounts British policing is currently experiencing a legitimacy crisis, a claim frequently evidenced by data from opinion surveys. Such surveys have been in the field for more than half a century, generating a wealth of data demonstrating the waxing and waning of 'trust and confidence' in police. Yet, few nationally representative surveys field items that cover the full range of public attitudes towards police. In this paper, we present …
Spaces apart: Public parks and the differentiation of space in Leeds, 1850–1914
While the Victorian ideal of the public park is well understood, we know less of how local governors sought to realize this ideal in practice. This article is concerned with park-making as a process – contingent, unstable, open – rather than with parks as outcomes – determined, settled, closed. It details how local governors bounded, designed and regulated park spaces to differentiate them as ‘spaces apart’ within the city, and how this programme…
Societal Impact as ‘Rituals of Verification’ and The Co-Production of Knowledge
Thinking about and operationalizing societal impacts have become defining characteristics of university-based research, especially in the United Kingdom. This paper reflects on this unfolding shift in the conceptualization and practice of research with particular regard to criminology. It traces the development of new regulatory regimes that seek to measure research performance and render impact auditable. It argues that these ‘rituals of verific…
The Future(s) of Security Studies
This article provides an introduction to the Special Issue as a whole by situating the collection of essays in the wider context of advances and debates within security studies and allied security-related research. It draws particularly upon themes and trends within and between international relations and criminology and their convergence around the field of security studies. It goes on to consider possible lines of future development in security…
Social values and managerial goals: Police and probation officers’ experiences and views of inter‐agency co‐operation 1
Recently an ‘inter‐agency’ approach has assumed the status of a panacea to the ills of contemporary criminal justice and crime prevention in Britain. This article reports on a survey of police and probation officers in one English county. The survey examines the views and experiences of rank‐and‐file officers to the enhanced role of inter‐agency co‐operation, in general, and in relation to community‐based crime prevention, in particular. It consi…
The Partnership Approach To Community Crime Prevention: Corporatism At the Local Level
Inter-Agency Co-Operation and Community-Based Crime Prevention
The role of 'inter-agency' co-operation in the sphere of crime prevention has been promoted increasingly by central and local government policy initiatives in recent years. In this paper we consider a number of theoretical issues raised by the examination of power relations in interorganizational contexts and the definitional processes through which local crime 'problems' are identified and translated into policies and practice. The work of Geoff…
Kirkholt Revisited: Some Reflections on the Transferability of Crime Prevention Initiatives
Little attention has been paid to the transferability of ‘successful’ crime prevention projects. The Kirkholt Burglary Prevention Project has been hailed by academics (Forrester et al. 1988, 1990; Bottoms 1990) and policy‐makers (Burns 1990; Home Office 1990) as one of the most successful crime prevention projects undertaken in the UK. In this paper we report on an ethnographic research case study of a crime prevention project which sought to tra…
The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda
emic circles as Amitai Etzioni's latest manifesto on communitarian politics,' which has finally been published in Britain, more than two years after its initial publication in the United States of America.2 The interest in communitarianism in Britain has grown significantly over the past year. Communitarianism began as a philosophical critique of liberalism and its excesses in neo-liberal political rationality and libertarian legal philosophy.3 A…
Community safety and the quest for security: Holding back the dynamics of social exclusion
This paper casts a deliberately critical eye over the government's ‘community safety'proposals as outlined in the UK Crime and Disorder Act 1998, their philosophical origins, their ambiguities and their potential for social exclusion. After an evaluation of some specific proposals in the Act, the paper goes on to suggest that community safety elements within the Act and associated policy initiatives embody three principal dynamics, namely appeals…
The Local Governance of Crime: Appeals to Community and Partnerships
This text examines the increasing appeals to, and actual involvement of, communities in the area of crime control. It draws upon two research projects recently conducted in England to chart and analyze the growing 'partnership' approach to crime prevention, addressing the various conflicts and tensions involved
Justice De Proximité - The Growth of ‘Houses of Justice’ and Victim/Offender Mediation in France: A Very Unfrench Legal Response
Initiatives in mediation and reparation have developed significantly across diverse European countries, none more so than in France over the last decade. This article seeks to situate and explain the recent growth in France of the ‘ Maisons de Justice’ (Houses of Justice) and victim/offender mediation they offer. This explanation is connected to an understanding of the increasingly dominant discourse of ‘ justice de proximité’, its dynamics and i…
The Queens Council in the Middle Ages
Journal Article The Queens Council in the Middle Ages Get access Anne Crawford Anne Crawford Castle Cary, Somerset Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 469, November 2001, Pages 1193–1211, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.469.1193 Published: 01 November 2001
Victim Contact Work in the Probation Service. Paradigm Shift or Pandora's Box
The 1990 Victim's Charter created an obligation for the Probation Service in England and Wales to contact the victims, or their families, of life sentence prisoners prior to any consideration of the offender's release to enquire whether they have anxieties about the release. In 1996 this was broadened to include the victims of ‘serious violent or sexual offences’. The implementation of the Victim's Charter requirements has been both hesitant and …
Recent Developments in Restorative Justice for Young People in England and Wales: Community Participation and Representation
Journal Article Recent Developments in Restorative Justice for Young People in England and Wales: Community Participation and Representation Get access Adam Crawford, Adam Crawford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Tim Newburn Tim Newburn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 June 2002, Pages 476–495, https://doi.org…
Youth offending and restorative justice: Implementing reform in youth justice
Introduction 1. The origins and development of youth justice 2. Restorative justice: practices and ideals 3. Implementing restorative justice initiatives 4. Referral orders and youth offender panels 5. Organising the delivery of referral orders 6. Referral orders and the courts 7. Youth offender panels 8. Contracts and their implementation 9. Community panel members 10. Young people and their families 11. Victims and Referral Orders 12. Implement…
Contractual Governance’ of Deviant Behaviour
This paper seeks to analyse and make sense of the growing role and implications of forms of ‘contractual governance’ that are emerging in diverse fields of social life and public policy in England and Wales, both within and beyond criminal justice. Collectively, these modes of control mimic and deploy ‘contracts' and ‘agreement’ in the regulation of deviant conduct and disorderly behaviour. The rise of contractual governance is explored against t…
Involving Lay People in Criminal Justice
Integrating victims in restorative youth justice
Current youth justice policy aims to introduce principles of restorative justice and involve victims in responses to crime. The challenges involved in delivering this in a form that is sensitive to victims are considerable. This report provides an evaluation of the manner in which one Youth Offending Service sought to integrate victims
Plural policing: The mixed economy of visible patrols in England and Wales
This report draws together the findings of a two-year study of developments in the provision of visible policing in England and Wales, combining an overview of national developments with a detailed analysis of six focused case studies
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security
The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in this pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned…
Networked governance and the post-regulatory state: Steering, rowing and anchoring the provision of policing and security
This article engages with insights from the ‘(post-) regulatory state’ literature in critically exploring the changing face of policing and security. It subjects notions of ‘networked governance’ and ‘responsive regulation’ to empirical examination in the British context. The article illustrates the manner in which state anchoring constitutes a distinctive characteristic of contemporary security governance. It suggests that far from state withdra…
Additional Security Patrols in Residential Areas: Notes from the Marketplace
This article presents an overview of an emerging market in residential security patrols in England and Wales. Drawing on recent empirical research, it outlines the fragmented and uneven nature of current developments and highlights coordination deficits and the absence of regulatory oversight. The research illustrates how the growth in competitive relations between different providers of patrol can stymie the development of effective networked se…
Fixing Broken Promises: Neighbourhood Wardens and Social Capital
This article explores the growing emphasis upon the policing of incivilities and anti-social behaviour, situating this within debates about the role of social capital in the construction and maintenance of social order. It outlines a critique of certain dominant assumptions within debates about social capital, notably with regard to crime and security. Nevertheless, social capital is used as a lens through which to consider some of the questions …
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Dispersal Powers and the Symbolic Role of Anti‐Social Behaviour Legislation
This article considers the development and use of dispersal powers, introduced by the Anti‐Social Behaviour Act 2003, and situates these within the context of wider legislation and policy initiatives. It explores the ways in which the powers have been interpreted by the courts and implemented by police and local authorities. The article critically analyses the manner in which the powers: introduce ‘public perceptions’ as a justification for polic…
Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy’
The contemporary city is a contested space and its governance is the subject of complex global economic forces, local interests and political struggles as well as a response to the changing face of governing alliances in residential and commercial areas, forms of consumption, commercially-generated crime and disorder and cultural expressions of leisure. This article seeks to provide a thematic introduction to the manner in which the regulation of…
Governing Through Anti-social Behaviour: Regulatory Challenges to Criminal Justice
The ‘anti-social behaviour’ agenda in Britain and the introduction of diverse new powers and regulatory tools represent a major challenge to traditional conceptions of criminal justice. This article argues that the language of regulation has been appropriated and deployed to cloak and legitimise ambitious (yet ambiguous) bouts of hyper-active state interventionism. These may have more to do with quests to demonstrate government’s capacity to be s…
Peur du crime et insécurité: Quelques réflexions sur les tendances de la recherche anglo-américaine
Dans un contexte où le débat public sur l’insécurité s’accroît ainsi que l’intérêt de la recherche pour la peur du crime, cet article examine et critique certains développements récemment apparus dans la littérature et la recherche anglo-saxonne. Il étudie la signification des perceptions du public en matière d’insécurité et de peur du crime, comment nous mesurons l’insécurité et comment nous interprétons les résultats des recherches, puis il exa…
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