Community Safety Policies in Sweden. A Policy Change in Crime Control Strategies?

Lidskog, Rolf; Persson, Monika

doi:10.1080/01900692.2011.646084

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“… changing national approaches to crime prevention in the context of broader socioeconomic shifts (Hebberecht and Baillergeau 2012; Edward and Hughes 2013);  local effects and international travels of national agendas-e.g. emergence of "community safety" in the UK (Raco 2007) and convergence in Sweden (Lidskog and Persson 2012);  local importation and hybridization of global practices-e.g. Business Improvement Districts (Lippert 2014) or public camera surveillance (Hier and Walby 2014);  multilevel policy transfer within specific dimensions-e.g.…”

Section: From the Global Security Moment To The Local Production Of Pmentioning

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The Multiscalar Nature of Urban Security and Public Safety: Crime Prevention from Local Policy to Policing in Lisbon (Portugal) and Memphis (the United States)

Tulumello

2017

Urban Affairs Review

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The article contributes to recent discussions on convergence/divergence of local policies for urban security and public safety amid globalization, exploring comparatively local approaches to crime prevention and explaining differences/similarities through multilevel connections. I analyze situational prevention, social policy, and proximity/community policing in two “not-so-global” metropolises: Lisbon, where security is the goal of a wide set of policies in many fields, and Memphis, where social problems have become security issues and policing the only game in town. Differing approaches are explained on the grounds of political traditions, neoliberalization of policy, and multilevel relations among polities. I discuss implications for the relation between policy and policing: Police attempts at social outreach amid coupling/decoupling of security with/from urban policy, and the “mission creep” of policing when it is expected to lead prevention. Conclusions advocate that policy reform is necessary at many levels to deal with the intersection of crime, retrenching welfare, and aggressive policing in U.S. cities such as Memphis.

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Section: From the Global Security Moment To The Local Production Of Pmentioning

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The Multiscalar Nature of Urban Security and Public Safety: Crime Prevention from Local Policy to Policing in Lisbon (Portugal) and Memphis (the United States)

Tulumello

2017

Urban Affairs Review

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“…Notwithstanding this incongruence, Sweden has been affected by broader trends in preventive crime control strategies (Lidskog and Persson 2012). The last three decades have seen substantial changes in governmental policy (Lidskog 2006;Sahlin 2000).…”

Section: The Transnational Idea-complex and Its Clashes With The Swedmentioning

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Local Sensemaking of Policy Paradoxes – Implementing Local Crime Prevention in Sweden

Persson

2012

Public Organiz Rev

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This paper analyses the policy implementation of local crime prevention and community safety programmes in Sweden. It focuses on the clash between the transnational idea-complex and the national context, i.e. the unavoidable policy paradoxes of a transnational idea diffusion, and how they are made sense of when handled at local level. In particular, it emphasizes how actors in socioeconomically different local contexts within the same urban area have partly different reasons and motives for implementation. By using a sensemaking approach, this article contributes to the understanding of how convergence at national level is followed by divergence at local level.

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“…Crawford 2009), including Sweden (Lidskog and Persson 2012;Persson 2013). However, policy development in different countries and localities is not uniform (Crawford 2009;Gilling et al 2013), nor should these core assumptions be considered static.…”

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“…The politicization of crime-related fear was spurred by the fact that fear of crime and recorded exposure to crime did not correlate; hence, the presumption that fear of crime is in part a separate phenomenon, with separate causes. Though separate, they are connected in a common storyline that has fostered policy in a wide range of countries (Gilling 2001;Crawford 2009;Lidskog and Persson 2012;Persson 2013;Garland 2001), though with divergent institutional expressions in different countries and localities (see e.g. Edwards and Hughes 2005a;Crawford 2009;Gilling et al 2013).…”

Section: Aiming For a Changed Understanding Of (Feelings Of) Unsafetymentioning

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A policy problem that cannot escape its past – constraints on the reformation of safety policy

Persson

2015

Critical Policy Studies

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Critical Policy Studies. This paper has been peerreviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Persson, M. (2015) A policy problem that cannot escape its past: constraints on the reformation of safety policy.Critical Policy Studies, 9(2): 158-176 https://doi.org/10. 1080/19460171.2014.971038 Access to the published version may require subscription. AbstractWithin many current policy theories there is a tendency to first identify change and then explain it. A retrospective analysis of policy changes risks missing continuous processes and struggles for change as well as mechanisms of resistance to change. Taking this as a point of departure, this paper develops an understanding of the policy process as a struggle over meaning, as a way to allow for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of policy change and continuity. This approach is illustrated by an analysis of the formation of public safety policy in Sweden. Alternative storylines giving 'new' meanings to the policy problem were strategically incorporated into the policy discourse. However, it is found that an ideational path-dependency of the policy constrains the possibility for problem reformulation and thereby also the possibility for policy change. The discourses that instantiated the policy problem not only affect the ways in which the problem is rendered thinkable for the purposes of its government, but also for policy analysts as well as the public. The analysis shows that it is crucial to understand the interrelations between different discourses (within policy, politics and research) to understand the mechanisms of policy change and continuity.

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Community Safety Policies in Sweden. A Policy Change in Crime Control Strategies?

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

The Multiscalar Nature of Urban Security and Public Safety: Crime Prevention from Local Policy to Policing in Lisbon (Portugal) and Memphis (the United States)

The Multiscalar Nature of Urban Security and Public Safety: Crime Prevention from Local Policy to Policing in Lisbon (Portugal) and Memphis (the United States)

Local Sensemaking of Policy Paradoxes – Implementing Local Crime Prevention in Sweden

A policy problem that cannot escape its past – constraints on the reformation of safety policy

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