Janet Foster

Great Britain. Home Office. Research and Planning Unit

Tim Hope

The residents of certain local authority housing estates suffer relatively high levels of victimization from crime. In addition, their residential environments may be vandalized and poorly maintained. A variety of initiatives going back to the 1970s have been employed to improve conditions on such estates, partly in the hope that the quality of community life will be improved and that crime levels may be reduced. Prominent amongst these is the Priority Estates Project (PEP), sponsored by the Department of the Environment. The research reported here forms part of a joint project with that Department to assess the impact of the Priority Estates Project on housing service delivery, crime and community life. This report focuses on the effect which PEP may have on levels of crime and on community relations. The findings are both rich and complex.

The Impact of the Priority Estates Project

Housing, Community and Crime

"Villians" provides a rare insight into local and family traditions of petty crime. It looks at attitudes to crime and law enforcement, and the relationship of those attitudes to the culture in which they are expressed. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in police studies, ethnomethodology and women's studies.

Villains - Foster

The Wilds of Whip-Poor-Will Farm

This text is a sociological study of a community in transition and the impact of urban regeneration. The process of change on the Isle of Dogs is revealed from the differing perspectives of Islanders, developers and business, and yuppies attracted to the area. The book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in urban sociology, social geography, cultural and community studies, housing and urban planning, race and ethnic studies, and broader market including Open University courses, "A"-level courses and general interest.

Urban Change And Conflict In A Community In Transition

Docklands

How does a criminal subculture perpetuate itself? This is an entertaining and illuminating account – based on participant observation and extended interviews – of the transition from adolescent street crime to adult ‘hidden economy’ crime in one London neighbourhood. It also looks at the marked differences in women’s involvement in lawbreaking, and explores how deviance is linked to the social construction of gender.

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