The first edition of Community and the Problem of Crime was published by Routledge in 2016. As with this edition, that first iteration of the work charted the connections which have been made between the often-linked concepts of ‘crime’ and ‘community’ in criminological thought. It explored the ways in which theory in this area developed from early sociological approaches to the city and urbanization, the approaches to crime and its prevention developed by the Chicago sociologists in the early twentieth century and the various crime prevention perspectives which have predominated through to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Taking a critical perspective, the book was based around several chapters focusing on contemporary themes such as social disorder, regeneration, suspect communities and racial and social profiling, using contemporary examples and case-studies to illustrate the development of theory, policy and politics in this key area of study and practice. By the end of 2021, however, it was clear that a second edition was necessary to account for key developments within and outside the academy which have taken place in recent years which should inform theory and practice differently over the next period. While this current edition takes the same basic shape and chapter outline as the first, each chapter is updated to include pivotal moments, movements and ideas which have produced significant shifts in thinking and developed our understanding of equality, division, discrimination and their links to crime. Many of these ideas have emerged from outside criminology, as fractures in society which are key to understanding contemporary understandings of crime and societal responses to particular forms of law-breaking, are further exposed.