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‘Community’ Knows Best? Community Involvement in Criminal Justice

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The Management of Change in Criminal Justice

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Community justice has been a prominent goal within criminal justice policy since the late 1990s and can be broadly defined as the aspiration that local communities should play an active part in addressing the crime and disorder problems affecting them. The potential contribution of ‘the community’ to crime control has been variously understood in terms of the informal social control exercised within social cohesive neighbourhoods; community involvement in designing and holding to account local criminal justice services; and community involvement in service delivery. Research suggests that the public appetite for active participation in design and delivery of services is limited, but that, nevertheless, community justice is a worthwhile policy goal if conceived as a matter of helping to nurture community spirit and informal social control.

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  1. Keele University, UK

    Martin Wasik (Emeritus Professor of Law) & Sotirios Santatzoglou (Emeritus Professor of Law) (Emeritus Professor of Law) &  (Emeritus Professor of Law)

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Jacobson, J. (2015). ‘Community’ Knows Best? Community Involvement in Criminal Justice. In: Wasik, M., Santatzoglou, S. (eds) The Management of Change in Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_5

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