Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton.

• Introduction: asking questions of community safety ~ Peter Squires; Section one: Community safety: an incomplete project?: 'You know you're being watched everywhere': young people, custodial experiences and community safety ~ Carlie Goldsmith; Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities ~ Derek McGhee; Community safety, the family and domestic violence ~ Paula Wilcox; Ethnic minorities and community safety ~ Marion FitzGerald and Chris Hale; Section two: Community safety: a contested project?: The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people? ~ Matt Follett; The police and community safety ~ Barry Loveday; Community safety and the private security sector ~ Mark Button; Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes? ~ Adrian Barton; Section three: Community safety: a flawed project?: Community safety and corporate crime ~ Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte; Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety? ~ Sandra Walklate; Young women, community safety and informal cultures ~ Lynda Measor; Section four: Community safety: overrun by enforcement?: Community safety and social exclusion ~ Lynn Hancock; Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice ~ Dawn Stephen; Contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety? ~ Peter Squires.

"This is an extremely readable addition to the field of community safety because of its short, digestible chapters and applied use of theoretical concepts, which will make it appealing to students and practitioners alike. Layla Skinns, British Journal of Criminology."