ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the possible dangers of emerging community crime prevention patterns in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The defining moment for the formation of social welfare governance in Aotearoa/New Zealand occurred after the depression of the early 1930s when the first Labour government introduced the Social Security Act of 1938. The implicit logic of crime prevention is coterminous with the social welfare problem space that dominates Aotearoa/New Zealand governmental discourses well into the 1970s. Theoretically, it is significant to observe that the crime prevention governors in Aotearoa/New Zealand are justified through a wider neo-liberal commitment to the extension and deployment of an 'enterprise culture'. Governance in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand's crime prevention rationales is centred round the deploying communities as the regulatory space within which technologies of risk management are deployed to reduce the likelihood of criminal offending.
