The Newlove Report: a new opportunity or an obligation for communities to confront crime?

Abstract

Baroness Newlove's report Our vision for Safe and Active Communities, was published on 29 March 2011, at the onset of an austerity drive in spending across the public sector, including the criminal justice system. The police are facing a cut of up to 20 per cent in their finances over the next five years, which has resulted in an ongoing debate about their ability to maintain law and order (Casciani, 2011).

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Tom Considine

Tom Considine is Senior Lecturer/Admissions Tutor, Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, University of Huddersfield