Summary
“Policing is increasingly concerned with the risks faced by the vulnerable, the threats posed by the dangerous and reducing the harm caused to the former by the latter. In response multi-agency case management arrangements have proliferated and come to represent a ‘new orthodoxy’ for the police and their partners. However, evidence about the effectiveness of such schemes is in short supply.This paper describes an attempt to reduce recurrent violent crime in Slough (England) through the application of multi-agency case management techniques, as part of the Police Foundation’s Police Effectiveness in a Changing World project.”--Page 1.