Understanding and Responding to Crime and Disorder: Ensuring a Local Dimension.

Despite paying lip service to the local dimension to crime and disorder auditing,government policies in Britain have tended to prioritize national goals and standards. This is regrettable. The early acknowledgement that Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships could be grouped into families with distinct social, economic and criminogenic profiles underlined the importance of assessing crime and disorder issues in context. One example is the impact that tourism has upon crime and anti-social behaviour in areas catering for mass tourism and especially youth tourism. Using data from the 2001 and 2004 Crime and Disorder audits in Cornwall, and other local evaluations, this paper illustrates both how tourism impacts upon local crime patterns and how its impact needs to be recognized and incorporated into local planning processes.Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2008) 10, 158–173. doi:10.1057/cpcs.2008.11 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]