ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the growing salience of policy transfer around issues of local crime control in advanced liberal democracies. Recognising the need for a detailed programme of further research, the chapter questions the transatlantic origins of local partnership approaches to crime control in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. In this there was a particular emphasis on diagnosing the complex underpinnings of volume crime and the need to shift resources and focus towards crime prevention, rather than focusing on more reactive and coercive forms of policing and criminal justice. It is noted that policy ideas have also been gleaned from Europe, Australasia and beyond.
