Geared toward professionals and academicians interested in crime control and the social, political, criminological and ethical issues it raises, this collection of scholarly works presents a point of departure for an approach to policy-oriented learning affirming the practical adequacy of political and normative theories of crime control, recognizing the effect of the particular local contexts in which crime control policies are implemented, thereby building a more determinate understanding of control, such as locally specific practices and universal practices. The book is divided into nine chapters or collections on crime control and community that include: (1) an introduction on the community governance of crime control; (2) critical reflections on research, theory, and politics in community safety; (3) postmodern reflections on crime prevention and community safety; (4) crime prevention and scientific realism; (5) the state of crime prevention on Merseyside in the United Kingdom; (6) the local politics of crime control in Middle England; (7) the strategic dilemmas of community-based crime control; (8) the neglected but essential elements of community crime prevention; and (9) lessons from London and lessons for criminology on local crime prevention.