Crime Prevention

Approaches, Practices and Evaluations

Buch | Softcover

420 Seiten

2010 | 7th New edition
Anderson Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4224-6327-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Examines several types of crime prevention approaches and their goals, including those that are designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance, those directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance, and those for persons who have already committed crimes.

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This book reviews concepts, information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. The chapters summarize developments in public policy and crime control, and interweave themes central to the discussion: the impact of ideology, the role of the media, and the politicization of crime and criminal justice.

Autor

Steven P. Lab is Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program and Chair of the Department of Human Services at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include victims of crime, crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, and school crime.

Inhalt

1. Crime and the Fear of Crime 2. Crime Prevention 3. Evaluation and Crime Prevention Section I: Primary Prevention 4. The Physical Environment and Crime 5. Neighborhood Crime Prevention 6. Displacement and Diffusion 7. The Mass Media and Crime Prevention 8. General Deterrence Section II: Secondary Prevention 9. Prediction for Secondary Prevention 10. Situational Crime Prevention 11. Partnerships for Crime Prevention 12. Drugs, Crime, and Crime Prevention 13. The School and Crime Prevention Section III: Tertiary Prevention 14. Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation 15. Rehabilitation 16. Some Closing Thoughts on Crime Prevention and the Future

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Cincinnati
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4224-6327-3 / 1422463273
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4224-6327-7 / 9781422463277
• Zustand: Neuware