BEYOND CRIME PREVENTION: HOW THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING HAS CHANGED THE POLICY EQUATION

Popkin provides a useful summary and assessment of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's crime control policy in the last decade or so. He asserts that as the findings from this study illustrate, the fundamental policy problem facing housing authorities and law enforcement agencies is not simply controlling crime or removing the adolescents who commit it, but rather how to deal with the underlying problems that foster the criminal activity.