The community safety ‘profession’: Towards a new expertise in the governance of crime, disorder and safety in the UK?
Daniel Gilling
(Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Plymouth)
Gordon Hughes
(Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University)
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Abstract
The role of the community safety practitioner is a newly emerging expertise in local government. A survey conducted with local authorities reveals a relatively fluid and unstructured profession of highly educated or experienced individuals with heavy workloads. Practitioners inhabit a contested policy terrain in which they express a preference for a social regeneration agenda rather than narrower crime specific strategies.
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Citation
Gilling, D. and Hughes, G. (2002), "The community safety ‘profession’: Towards a new expertise in the governance of crime, disorder and safety in the UK?", Safer Communities, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200200002
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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