Download or read book Community Safety written by Peter Squires and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community safety emerged as an approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream policy by New Labour in the late '90s. This book provides theoretically informed analysis by leading authoritiesin the field.