Politics of Community Crime Prevention: Implementing Operation Weed and Seed in Seattle (Law, Justice, and Power)

National discourse and policy making on crime control in the United States has emphasized the role that residents of high-crime communities can play in combating and preventing crime. However the views of people who live and work in those neighbourhoods are often neglected. This book explores the complex and often striking differences between national and local perspectives, particularly those of racial minorities, on crime prevention and the role that community residents should play in prevention programmes.A richly detailed analysis of a Justice Department anti-crime policy entitled Operation Weed and Seed, the book examines the programme's implementation in two neighbourhoods in Seattle, Washington between 1993 and 1997 and provides a comprehensive analysis of the struggle by local residents to redefine the crime problem and their role in addressing that problem. This book makes an important contribution to the study of the national crime policy and the potentially transformative effects of local community involvement in implementing policy.Lisa Lynn Miller is the author of 'Politics of Community Crime Prevention: Implementing Operation Weed and Seed in Seattle (Law, Justice, and Power)' with ISBN 9780754621409 and ISBN 0754621405.