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Urban crime prevention : development of policy and practice in England

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Paul Ekblom
Paul Ekblom*
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Home Office Research and Planning Unit
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Today, in England, crime prevention is an important and lively area of policy and practice in national government, and is also growing steadily in local government. Let me take the most salient example, the Safer Cities Programme (SCP). This was set up by the Home Office in 1988, as part of the Government’s wider programme of coordinated action aimed at dealing with the multiple social, physical and economic problems of some of our larger cities.

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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 30 , Issue 1-2 , 1992 , pp. 65 - 83
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Copyright © 1992 International Society for Criminology

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