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Article: Understanding crime prevention: social control, risk and late modernity.
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Hughes, Gordon Understanding Crime Prevention: Social Control, Risk and Late Modernity. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1998, 179 pp.
Crime prevention is currently a key political issue of many governments in the Anglo-American world. The widespread adoption of initiatives such as community policing and the creation of "Safer Cities" programmes suggest that crime prevention is a growing priority in criminal justice policy development. Yet, for the most part, our understanding of this subject area has been influenced largely by a governmental discourse which speaks more to the administrative issues of program implementation and funding than how to think ...