| The awareness of the processes of economic, cultural and political globalisation has impacted on the sphere of crime control policy principally by drawing attention to the attempts to control a range of cross border crimes. These may include, for example, trans-national policies and partnership-policing initiatives to control illegal drugs markets, international terrorism, the smuggling of contraband and illegal immigrants. However, there has also been an international trade in ways of conceptualising and attempting to forge solutions to more prosaic, local volume crimes: routine acquisitive crimes and crimes against the person. Building on research in the UK on the local development of community safety policy, this paper explores how, in the context of the way that processes of globalisation have marginalised local areas and populations, trans-Atlantic transfer of policy analyses and solutions has influenced the direction of local crime control policies. |
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