ABSTRACT
The last chapter emphasized the promotional role performed by the Home Office in seeking to bring crime prevention more to the fore as a serious and credible strategy of crime control. Ultimately, however, the success of this endeavour rests upon the roles performed by others closer to the ground, although as the last chapter also pointed out, there are various political and implementational difficulties that can render these problematic. In this chapter we focus our attention upon the roles performed by criminal justice agencies in crime prevention, and specifically the police and probation services. Both of these are central elements of traditional criminal justice responses to crime, and both have a long and established history in this regard. Finally, both also possess their own distinctive discourses of crime prevention that are not necessarily in harmony with that-or those-currently being promoted at the national level, and for each the story revolves mainly around the accommodations that have had to be made, or that have been resisted, in response to contemporary crime prevention policy.
