ABSTRACT
The financing of individual projects and indeed of the conseils communaux and their administration is undertaken through a num ber o f‘partnerships’, between central and local government, between the French equivalent of voluntary and statutory bodies, between the public and the private sector, although it should be emphasised that privately financed organisations, whether charities or businesses, provide only a very small proportion of funding for crime prevention. The partnership ideal means in practice that no one government ministry or local government departm ent is exclusively responsible for funding any particular project. M any projects are funded from five or more sources. Accountability, therefore is not directly to the funding body, but to the crime prevention council or councils (national, départemental or local) which organised the funding and approved the project. These councils are not in any sense hierarchical, but operate independently (but often in co-operation with one another) at the local, county and city levels (King 1988).
