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Crime science : new approaches to preventing and detecting crime /

This book provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials. It provides a major statement of the nature and aspirations of crime science, and presents a series of case studies providing examples, in different settings, of the approach in action, ranging from preventing crime wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Melissa J., Dr, Tilley, Nick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2005.
Colección:Crime science series (Willan Publishing)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Defining crime science / Gloria Laycock
  • How to police the future: scanning for scientific and technological innovations which generate potential threats and opportunities in crime, policing and crime reduction / Paul Ekblom
  • Cost-benefit analysis for crime science: making cost-benefit analysis useful through a portfolio of outcomes / Graham Farrell, Kate J. Bowers and Shane D. Johnson
  • Reducing prison disorder through situational prevention: the Glen Parva experience / Richard Wortley and Lucia Summers
  • Driving down crime at motoway service areas / Nick Tilley
  • Vehicle excise duty evasion in the UK / Melissa J. Smith and Barry Webb
  • Predicting the future or summarising the past? Crime mapping as anticipation / Shane D. Johnson, Kate J. Bowers and Ken Pease
  • DNA fast-tracking / Barry Webb, Chloe Smith, Andrew Brock and Michael Townsley
  • Cognition and detection: reluctant bedfellows? / Peter Stelfox and Ken Pease.