Community safety : innovation and evaluation / edited by Elaine Hogard, Roger Ellis and Jeremy Warren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogard, Elaine.

Ellis, Roger, editor.

Warren, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheshire, England : Chester Academic Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A volume of conference papers that brings together the latest thinking in the important area of community safety, with contributions from some of the leading internationally respected academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field. The fifteen chapters are organised under four main themes: data and data gathering regarding community safety; studies of innovations in community safety; partnerships for community safety; and approaches to the evaluation of community safety initiatives and programmes. The book should be useful and stimulating for practitioners, academics and policy makers

Contents:

Front cover

Title pages

Copyright page

Editors' Introduction

Stephen Brookes - Leadership, Community Safety and Delivery - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Leadership Within a Partnership Context

E. Burton, G. Butler, J. Hdgskinson and S. Marshall - Quick But Not Dirty: Rapid Evidence Assessments (REAs) as a Decision Support Tool in Social Policy

Paul Ekblom - Appropriate Complexity: Capturing and Structuring Knowledge from Impact and Process Evaluation of Crime Reduction, Community Safety and Problem-Oriented Policing

Roger Ellis and Elaine Hogard - The Trident: A Three-Pronged Method for Evaluating Programmes and Initiatives

A. Rose, M. Gill, K. Collins and M. Hemming. Public Perceptions of Static and Redeployable CCTV

Mike Hough - Hands On or Hands Off? Central Government's Role in Managing CDRPs

Martin Innes and Colin Roberts - Community Intelligence in the Policing of Community Safety

R.I. Mawby - Crime and Disorder Audits and the Problems of Becoming Too Localised

Judith Million - Partnerships - Looking to the Future

Kevin Pellatt - No Pain, No Gain: The Safer Derbyshire Research and Information Team Story

Craig Paterson and Allyson MacVean - Defining Deviant Lifestyle: Understanding Anti-Social Behaviour and Problem Drug use Through Critical Methodologies

Kate Bowers, Shane Johnson and Ken Pease - Back to the Future: Innovation, Evaluation and Reverse Survival Analysis

Nick Tilley - What Do We Mean By 'What Works'?

Jeremy Warren and Graeme Gerrard - 'Safer Homes': An Innovative Approach to Tackling Domestic Burglary

Chris Williams - Mapping the Fear of Crime - A Micro-Approach

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 15, 2014).

ISBN:

9781908258731

190825873X

OCLC:

905016509