This book is the first comprehensive exploration of an issue of growing importance to policy makers, academics, practitioners and students. It brings together contributions from prominent scholars to provide a range of theoretical perspectives, analysis and research about the role of housing and urban governance in addressing anti-social behaviour.

John Flint is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University.

Introduction: housing and anti-social behaviour ~ John Flint; Housing and the governance of conduct ~ John Flint; Governing tenants: from dreadful enclosures to dangerous places ~ Pauline Card; Labelling: constructing definitions of anti-social behaviour? ~ Helen Carr and Dave Cowan; Anti-social behaviour: voices front the front line ~ Judy Nixon and Sadie Parr; Spaces of discipline and control: the compounded citizenship of social renting ~ Rowland Atkinson; Tenancy agreements: a mechanism for governing anti-social behaviour? ~ Diane Lister; The changing legal framework: from landlords to agents of social control ~ Caroline Hunter; Social landlords, anti-social behaviour and counter-measures ~ Hal Pawson and Carol MacKenzie; Evaluating the shelter inclusion project: a floating support service for households accused of anti-social behaviour ~ Anwen Jones, Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars; Tackling anti-social behaviour: an evaluation of the Dundee Families Project ~ Suzie Scott; Policing and community safety in residential areas: the mixed economy of visible patrols ~ Adam Crawford; Gated communities: a response to, or remedy for, anti-social behaviour? ~ Sarah Blandy; Housing and anti-social behaviour in Australia ~ Kathy Arthurson and Keith Jacobs; Testing urban forms: city, control and 'urban violence' in France ~ Olivier Ratouis and Jerome Boissonade; Residential stability amongst adolescents in public housing: a risk factor for delinquent and violent behaviour? ~ Tim Ireland, Terence P. Thornberry and Rolf Loeber; Conclusions ~ John Flint.