Crime Prevention. Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations

✍ Scribed by Steven P. Lab (Auth.)

• Publisher: Anderson
• Year: 2014
• Leaves: 429
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This timely revision of Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations provides an up-to-date collection of the research on crime prevention. The prevailing approaches and strategies are organized into categories of primary prevention (designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance), secondary prevention (directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance), and tertiary prevention (dealing with those who have already committed offenses). The effects of physical environments, the mass media, displacement and diffusion, electronic monitoring, and home confinement are also explored. In addition to presenting a discussion of the different prevention approaches, the author provides insight into the effectiveness of each approach.

• A new chapter on developmental crime prevention focuses on the early life experiences that predispose individuals to commit deviant acts and using risk factors in predicting behavior for secondary prevention.
• New attention is brought to situational prevention, partnerships for crime prevention, the politics of prevention strategies, and organizing dysfunctional neighborhoods.
• All chapters now include updated tables that indicate the state of the evidence as well as key terms, learning objectives, web references, and a helpful glossary.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Online Instructor and Student Resources, Pages xi-xii
Preface to the Eighth Edition, Pages xiii-xv
Chapter 1 - Crime and the Fear of Crime, Pages 1-19
Chapter 2 - Crime Prevention, Pages 21-33
Chapter 3 - Evaluation and Crime Prevention, Pages 35-50
Introduction, Pages 51-52
Chapter 4 - The Physical Environment and Crime, Pages 53-81
Chapter 5 - Neighborhood Crime Prevention, Pages 83-109
Chapter 6 - Displacement and Diffusion, Pages 111-133
Chapter 7 - The Mass Media and Crime Prevention, Pages 135-155
Chapter 8 - Developmental Crime Prevention, Pages 157-172
Chapter 9 - General Deterrence, Pages 173-189
Introduction, Pages 191-192
Chapter 10 - Prediction for Secondary Prevention, Pages 193-213
Chapter 11 - Situational Crime Prevention, Pages 215-235
Chapter 12 - Partnerships for Crime Prevention, Pages 237-254
Chapter 13 - Drugs, Crime, and Crime Prevention, Pages 255-274
Chapter 14 - The School and Crime Prevention, Pages 275-296
Introduction, Pages 297-298
Chapter 15 - Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation, Pages 299-316
Chapter 16 - Rehabilitation, Pages 317-335
Chapter 17 - Some Closing Thoughts on Crime Prevention and the Future, Pages 337-342
Glossary, Pages 343-355
Reference, Pages 357-409
Name Index, Pages 411-420
Subject Index, Pages 421-433