Citation

Walklate S. Crime Prev. Community Safety 1999; 1(3): 7-16.

Affiliation

Manchester Metropolitan University

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to situate the policy possibilities of community safety partnerships within the context of the lived experience of crime in two structurally similar high-crime areas. On the basis of some of these empirical findings the case will be made for locally nuanced understandings of crime prevention strategies. These empirical findings constitute a challenge to some of the more conventional understandings of both what needs to be managed in high-crime areas and what such management processes might look like. The paper concludes by suggesting some alternative interpretations of the concept of partnership and what such partnerships might address.