ABSTRACT
Chapter Two explores the different ways in which ‘community’ has been incorporated into crime prevention, from the initial discussion of criminogenic and socially disorganized neighbourhood formations which characterized the Chicago School, to the replacement of offender-centred strategies with situational and place-based approaches and the development of social and community-based prevention which emerged from the 1970s onwards. It looks at the emergence of the ‘problem neighbourhood’ and how discourses of ‘fear’, ‘disorder’ and ‘disintegration’ have shaped approaches to crime prevention.
