ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on community crime prevention in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. It considers the rationale for the development of community crime prevention in contemporary Western democracies and the principles which underpin community crime prevention. The chapter provides the practices associated with community crime prevention. It also considers matters to do with the implementation of community crime prevention focusing specifically on the challenges of mobilising citizens and the challenges of mobilising the police service. The chapter describes the outcomes of community crime prevention in terms of its stated aims. It draws on the abovementioned examples of Neighbourhood Watch and community policing. Community crime prevention came to prominence in light of acknowledgement of weaknesses in formal social control and more specifically in acknowledgement of limitations in the traditional model of policing. Community crime prevention has evolved as part of the responses to various crises of police legitimacy.
