This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive overview of effective crime prevention programs, strategies and policies, demonstrating how criminological theories, research, and practice are interrelated. This textbook offers the most cutting–edge, comprehensive summaries of effective interventions based on the latest research, by the foremost scholars on the topic of crime prevention in the U.S The book s unique practical information and discussions on how to effectively replicate prevention strategies in communities and criminal–justice settings is highly relevant to students, providing them with the latest research in this area Coverage of multiple theories of crime includes the more recent public–health and life–course developmental perspectives Provides a comprehensive review of the increasing number of effective crime prevention interventions and the practicalities of ensuring that these programs, practices and policies are effectively implemented, both in the U.S and in other countries Presents the most cutting–edge current and optimistic view regarding crime prevention: that it is possible to effectively reduce crime but that efforts need to start early in communities and continue through the life–course INDICE: Preface .Chapter 1: The Goals and Logic of Crime Prevention .Chapter 2: A Brief History of Crime Prevention .Chapter 3: How Theory and Research Inform the Science and Practice of Crime Prevention .Chapter 4: Evaluation Science .Chapter 5: Establishing a Standard for Judging Intervention Effectiveness .Chapter 6: Situational and Legal Crime Prevention Practices, Programs and Policies .Chapter 7: Contextual Interventions .Chapter 8: Individual–Level Crime Prevention: Preventing the Onset of Crime .Chapter 9: Individual–Level Crime Prevention: Reducing the Continuity of Offending .Chapter 10: Selecting and Implementing Effective Crime Prevention Practices, Programs and Policies .Chapter 11: Implementation Science: Taking Effective Crime Prevention Programs, Practices and Policies to Scale .Chapter 12: The Future of Crime Prevention .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-84359-8
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés