Understanding Crime and Social Policy

Detailed contents

List of boxes and tables

Preface and acknowledgements

1 Introducing crime and social policy

2 Crime, criminalisation and social policy

3 Crime policy-making: a myriad of influences

4 Delivering crime policy: analyzing the changing political landscape

5 The resettlement of prisoners: back on the policy agenda

6 The messy realities of policy-making: tackling the drug ‘problem’

7 ‘Troubled’ or ‘troublesome’ families? Social policy and crime prevention

8 Governing through crime? Regulating behaviour in neoliberal societies

References

Index