Summary
"This dissertation examines the rise to prominence of crime prevention from a position of relative obscurity to a more central focus in Canadian federal government rhetoric between 1974 and 2000. It investigates how the concept of 'crime prevention' was articulated and rationalized as an object and an instrument of Canadian federal government intervention in the late twentieth century. By exploring government rhetoric which coalesced around appeals to prevention, this study illuminates some late twentieth century shifts in the expressed desire to prevent crime and victimization."--Page iii.