P.275
Analítico de Periódico
GILLING, Daniel
Community safety and social policy
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Netherlands, V.9,n.4(Dec. 2001), p.381-400
SEGURANÇA, PREVENÇÃO CRIMINAL, EXCLUSÃO SOCIAL, POLÍTICA SOCIAL
This article examines community safety policy. In many countries community safety has become a replacement discourse for situational crime prevention, although in some countries such as the UK, it too is threatened with replacement by the narrower concerns of crime reduction. Community safety represents the apparent merging of the concerns of criminal justice and social policy, specifically over questions of social inclusion and exclusion. Focusing in the main upon UK policy, but also drawing upon experience elsewhere, this article scrutinises the policy of community safety, arguing that while it offers an inclusionary vision of crime control, its practice may be something rather different.