Urban Security in Europe: Problems, responsibilities and expertise

by Adam Edwards, Gordon Hughes, Nicholas Lord

What is the current state of urban security in Europe in the context of the increased freedom of movement of people, goods and services across national borders, an increasingly austere economic climate and consequent pressures on governing capacity in European cities?

Crime prevention policy developed in Europe as a response to the perceived the perceived rise of transnational threats to the security of urban populations. This book examines the concept of ‘urban security’ in a European context, tracing the origins of the problem in public policy discourse through to the desire of the European Union to create an ‘area of freedom, security and justice’ amongst member states. Written by experts in the field and based on extensive research across Europe, this book argues that the social science has a major contribution to make to this policy discourse in corroborating, criticising and adapting its conception of the problems, responsibilities and expertise entailed in urban security and constituting its smarter governance in an age of austerity.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 2016

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Adam Edwards is a journalist with regular columns in the Daily Telegraph and Finaincial Times. He is a former New York correspondent for The Times and features editor of the London Evening Standard. In 1996 he was voted the British Society of Magazine Editors' editor of the year. His A Short History of the Wellington Boot was published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2006.