ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on evaluations of three projects funded under the Targeted Policing Initiative (TPI) which had in common the aim of reducing ‘alcohol-related’ crime. One, the Tackling Alcohol-Related Street Crime (TASC) project in Cardiff, was focused upon two city-centre police sectors. The other two, Operation Amethyst in Cornwall and the Nottinghamshire Alcohol Related Crime (NARV) project, each covered a whole county. They also differed in that the TASC project was aimed at preventing violence and disorder both inside licensed premises and on the city-centre streets, whereas Amethyst and the NARV project were targeted primarily at offences occurring in licensed premises. The full evaluation report of the TASC project has been published (Maguire and Nettleton 2003); those on Amethyst and NARV (Hopkins and Maguire 2003; Maguire and Swainson 2003) are unpublished.
