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4 Crim. Just. 5 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/crmcj4 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLES Criminal justice 2004 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. www.sagepublications.com 1466 8025; Vol: 4(1): 5 28 DOI: 10.1177/1466802504042221 The greening and governance of crime control BARRY VAUGHAN Institute of Public Administration, Ireland Abstract This article examines the suggestion that crime control policy should emulate environmental regulation by concentrating on the alteration of fundamental incentive structures. The 'greening' of policy can occur in a number of different ways. A dominant model of environmental regulation is skewed towards government and technicist in orientation. This model does not consider the diversity of incentives that incite action and runs up against a commitment problem. An alternative model of regulation, derived from the grid- group theory of Mary Douglas, is described and its promise for inspiring a culturally plural model of crime control that is not dominated by the state is explored. These suggestions are substantiated by examining recent debates concerning policing and crime prevention and the progress of the Crime and Disorder Act in England and Wales, which might point to an altered role for the state in the provision of security. Key Words governance greening grid-group theory regulation wicked problems Introduction Ken Pease (1998), in one of his customary Solomonic moments, has suggested that crime control policy needs to become more like environ- mental policy. In his opinion, the former is doomed to failure in the fight against crime as long as it remains fixated with allocating blame upon 5