Pathways and Crime Prevention : Theory, Policy and Practice

✍ Scribed by France, Alan; Homel, Ross

• Publisher: Willan Pub
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 395
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families and explores new evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research. It addresses a number of key challenges, arguing that by broadening the research questions and exploring contributions from a wider range of disciplines our understanding of both the pathways into and out of crime and the type of interventions that might work will be greatly enhanced.  Read more...

Abstract: This book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families and explores new evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research. It addresses a number of key challenges, arguing that by broadening the research questions and exploring contributions from a wider range of disciplines our understanding of both the pathways into and out of crime and the type of interventions that might work will be greatly enhanced

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Copyright page
Contents
Figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part One: Understanding pathways into and out of crime
Introduction
Chapter 1 Societal access route and development pathways
Chapter 2 Taking the developmental pathways approach to understanding and preventing antisocial behaviour
Chapter 3 Adding social contexts to developmental analyses of crime prevention
Chapter 4 Risk factors and pathways out of crime
Chapter 5 Young people pathways and crime: beyond risk factors. Chapter 6 Social exclusion, youth transitions and criminal careersChapter 7 What mediates the macro level effects of economic and social stress on crime?
Chapter 8 Repeat sexual victimisation among an offender sample: implications for pathways and prevention
Chapter 9 A life course perspective on bullying
Part Two: Prevention theory, policy and practice
Introduction
Chapter 10 Why early life is not enough: timing and sustainability in prevention and early intervention
Chapt.

✦ Subjects

Criminology -- Congresses.;Crime -- Sociological aspects -- Congresses.;Juvenile delinquency -- Congresses.;Developmental psychology -- Congresses.;Crime prevention -- Congresses.;Crime prevention.;Crime -- Sociological aspects.;Criminology.;Developmental psychology.;Juvenile delinquency.