Understanding Crime Prevention: Social Control, Risk and Late Modernity (Crime and Justice)

Offering a comprehensive overview of current and historical debates about crime prevention, this text seeks to move beyond the traditional boundaries of criminology and offer a re-framing of the field of crime prevention based on a synthesis of late-1990s thinking in social theory. In particular it examines theorizing about late modernity, risk society, communitarianism and globalization as ways of linking trends in crime prevention to wider social transformations.