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Civil Renewal and Community Safety: Virtuous Policy Spiral or Dynamic of Exclusion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

David Prior
David Prior
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Social Studies, The University of Birmingham E-mail: d.prior@bham.ac.uk
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Abstract

Civil renewal is an emerging policy priority for the UK government, aiming to build stronger, more cohesive communities and to encourage individual citizens to be active members of such communities. The promotion of social capital and trust relationships is central to this approach. Strategies to improve community safety and reduce crime and disorder are closely related to the drive for civil renewal, with the two sets of policies seen as mutually supportive. This article shows, however, that many community safety initiatives are founded on relationships of suspicion between citizens. This generates a dynamic of exclusion that is likely to undermine attempts at civil renewal.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 357 - 367
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Cambridge University Press 2005

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