Safer Communities: Volume 7 Issue 1

Strapline:

A journal on crime, crime prevention and community safety
Subjects:

Table of contents

Home Affairs Committee report: Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System

John Pitts

The recent Home Affairs Committee report Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System has important implications for professionals working in youth justice, community safety…

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Action on gang crime: recent developments

John Pitts

John Pitts outlines recent developments on gang crime, including policy initiatives and regional and local projects.

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Tilley Award winners The Quinton ESCAPE Project

The Tilley Awards for Problem‐Oriented Policing ‘recognise and reward the most intelligent, courageous and effective approaches to dealing with the problems police encounter on…

Gathering community intelligence: initial findings from south Wales

Colin Rogers

The current drive for community engagement and the introduction of neighbourhood policing teams has highlighted the importance of gathering intelligence from communities. This…

Describing and defining youth gangs

John Pitts

In the past few years, academics, practitioners and policy‐makers have wrestled with the problem of defining youth gangs and differentiating them from other youth groupings. This…

Young people and cannabis use: messages for practitioners

Margaret Melrose

This article is based on a study of 100 young people who were regular marijuana users, which aimed to discover the impact of their drug use on key life transitions. The article…

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Guns, gangs and young people ‐ engaging faith communities

Andrew McConnochie

Recent research suggests that faith communities can be successfully involved in gang initiatives and, indeed, many are already working with children and young people at risk…

Cover of Safer Communities

ISSN:

1757-8043

Online date, start – end:

2002

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Timi Osidipe