Table of Contents:
Introduction : the preventive turn in Europe
Chapter 1. Situating crime prevention policies in comparative perspective : policy travels, transfer and translation
Chapter 2. The political evolution of situational crime prevention in England and Wales
Chapter 3. The preventive turn and the promotion of safer communities in England and Wales : political inventiveness and governmental instabilities
Chapter 4. The development of community safety in Scotland : a different path?
Chapter 5. The evolving story of crime prevention in France
Chapter 6. Forty years of crime prevention in the Dutch polder
Chapter 7. 'Modernisation' of institutions of social and penal control in Italy/Europe : the 'new' crime prevention
Chapter 8. Crime prevention at the Belgian federal level : from a social democratic policy to a neo-liberal and authoritarian policy in a social democratic context
Chapter 9. Going around in circles? : reflections on crime prevention strategies in Germany
Chapter 10. Crime prevention in Hungary : why is it so hard to argue for the necessity of a community approach?
Chapter 11. International models of crime prevention / Margaret Shaw