Policing Youth: Britain, 1945–70

Policing guns and youth violence.

To combat the epidemic of youth gun violence in the 1980s and 1990s, law enforcement agencies across the United States adopted a variety of innovative strategies. This article presents case studies of eight cities' efforts to police gun crime. Some cities emphasized police-citizen partnerships to address youth violence, whereas others focused on aggressive enforcement against youth suspected of...

Uninterested Youth? Young People’s Attitudes towards Party Politics in Britain

Following the outcome of the 2001 and 2005 General Elections, when the numbers of abstainers outweighed the numbers of Labour voters on both occasions, much attention has focused upon the state of British democracy and how to enthuse the electorate, especially young people. While the government is exploring ways to make the whole process of voting easier, it may be failing to tackle the real pr...

Cpc : Crime , Policing & Citizenship Intelligent Policing

Ideas in American Policing Place-based Policing

Ideas in American Policing presents commentary and insight from leading criminologists on issues of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. The papers published in this series are from the Police Foundation lecture series of the same name. Points of view in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Police Foundation. The ...

Implementing the Youth ‘Anti-social Behaviour’ Agenda: Policing the Ashton Estate

The article presents fi ndings of a doctoral research project that examined the implementation of legislation targeted at youth ‘anti-social behaviour’, which began with the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Sadler, 2004). A 2-year ethnographic case study examined the implementation of the legislation on an inner city housing estate in England, and the broader effects of the contemporary ‘youth “ant...