Crime prevention : approaches, practices and evaluations /

This edition provides a 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 potentia...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lab, Steven P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Edition:8th ed.
Subjects:
Crime prevention > United States.
Crime prevention > United States > Evaluation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime prevention
Crime prevention > Evaluation
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Crime and the fear of crime
  • Crime prevention
  • Evaluation and crime prevention.
  • Primary Prevention. The physical environment and crime
  • Neighborhood crime prevention
  • Displacement and diffusion
  • The mass media and crime prevention
  • Developmental crime prevention
  • General deterrence.
  • Secondary Prevention. Prediction for secondary prevention
  • Situational crime prevention
  • Partnerships for crime prevention
  • Drugs, crime, and crime prevention
  • The school and crime prevention.
  • Tertiary Prevention. Specific deterrence and incapacitation
  • Rehabilitation
  • Some closing thoughts on crime prevention and the future.

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