Defining what 'rural' means to different groups, and considering rural crime.

Crime, Order and Social Control - for iPod/iPhone

Crime and the rural idyll

Crime, order and social control

How social policies such as the Rock Challenge programme empower youth to have fun without drug-taking, thereby preventing crime.

Crime and community safety

An ASBO police co-ordinator explains what this powerful piece of legislation is and how it can be used as a crime-reduction strategy.

Anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOS)

Why the rise in gated communities, and are they a valid answer to crime reduction?

Gated communities

A look at urban crime and regeneration in Leith.

Urban crime and regeneration in Scotland

A look at crime in both the rural and urban context.

Crime in urban and rural contexts

Conclusions about the struggle for both urban and rural order in different parts of Scotland.

Reshaping communities

How restorative justice works in New Zealand, and how it might be introduced in the UK.

Restorative justice: Involving the victims of crime

A look at a crime initiative in Milton Keynes that uses restorative justice when dealing with shoplifters.

Restorative justice: dealing with shoplifters

Education

Have you ever been the victim of crime?  Are you fearful of rising crime rates? Crime is one of contemporary society's most pressing social problems - how should we respond to it? This album visits various communities in the UK to explore issues of criminal justice and the introduction of possibly controversial crime control initiatives such as restorative justice, which involves offenders meeting their victims. It also looks at schemes tackling problems of racial violence and other anti-social behaviours. This material forms part of The Open University course D315 Crime, order and social control.