ARTICLES: : 1. Editorial 2. Manuel Eisner and Per-Olof H. Wikström - Violent Crime in the Urban Community: A Comparison of Stockholm and Basel 3. J. David Hawkins - Preventing Crime and Violence through Communities That Care 4. Per-Olof H. Wikström and Marie Torstensson - Local Crime Prevention and its National Support: Organisation and Direction 5. Bram Peper and Frans Spierings - Settling Disputes Between Neighbours in the Lifeworld: An Evaluation of Experiments with Community Mediation in the Netherlands 6. Adam Crawford - Questioning Appeals to Community within Crime Prevention and Control 7. Current Issues: Martin Killias and Jacob Elfinus Sahetapy - 'Communities and Crime': the Unexpected Outcomes of an Asian Dinner 8. Frank Neubacher, Michael Walter, Helena Válková and Krzysztof Krajewski - Juvenile delinquency in Central European Cities: a Comparison of Registration and Processing Structures in the 1990