ABSTRACT
Partnership has been a consistent theme throughout the development of crime prevention policy since the 1950s. Initially, it was implicit, both in the urging of private citizens and businesses to have greater regard to the security of person and property, and in the corporate structures that were established in the 1960s and were viewed as an essentially normal part of the corporatist climate in which public policy operated at this time. In the 1980s, the terminology became more explicit, and frequent appeals were made to the multi-agency, inter-agency or co-ordinated approach to crime prevention, while in the 1990s the term partnership has moved to the fore, as it has across a number of different areas of public policy, including urban policy, which is an example of some relevance to crime prevention.
