1. Setting the scene -- 2. Research on, for and by the police -- 3. On the beat -- The West Midlands Police resource experiments -- The West Mercia Police operational support unit -- The Havan policing scheme -- The Skelmersdale coordinated policing project -- The Chelmsley Wood policing experiment and the Police Effectiveness Evaluation Panel -- 4. Crime prevention in theory -- 5. Crime prevention in practice -- Two security projects - Felling and Scotswood -- Community campaigning and casework : the Grange Project -- Individual entrepreneurship : crime prevention in Merthyr Tydfil -- Coordinated crime prevention in Devon and Cornwall -- Coordinated crime prevention in Greater Manchester -- Looking and listening : neighbourhood watch -- 6. A cautionary tale : the case of unit beat policing -- 7. Central interests and central influences -- 8. Policing by objectives or the subjectives? -- Appendix A : Policing schemes -- Appendix B :Sources of information on policing initiatives
