The audit culture and crime and disorder reduction partnerships: Exorcising the wicked issue of community safety?

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 9-18

  Hughes, Gordon ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'what works'; audit culture; community governance; Community safety; crime and disorder reduction partnerships; managerialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344444267     PISSN: 14603780     EISSN: 17434629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8140119     Document Type: Article

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