The book puts forward late modernity, risk society, communitarianism and globalization as important ways of linking trends in crime prevention to wider social transformations. It focuses on the managerialization of crime prevention in recent decades, the extent to which crime control may become dominated by privatized security and insurance against risks, and the attractions and pitfalls of informal community-based approaches. The book is divided into seven chapters, each with a summary and bibliography: (1) Mapping the Terrain of Crime Prevention; (2) Classicism and the Deterrent Presences of the Modern State; (3) Positivism and the Cure of “Criminal Man”; (4) Situational Crime Prevention: The Pragmatics of Crime Control; (5) Multi-agency Partnerships: Managing Corporate Crime Prevention; (6) Communitarianism: Bringing “The Social” Back Into Crime Prevention? and (7) The Futures of Crime Control in Late Modernity. Bibliographies, figures, glossary, references, index