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Crime prevention : approaches, practices, and evaluations / Steven P. Lab.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Routledge 2016Edition: 9th edDescription: xiii, 452 pages illustrations (black and white)ISBN:
  • 978-1-138-94693-4 (hbk.)
  • 978-0-323-35772-2 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.40973 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Oepb
Contents:
1. Crime and the Fear of Crime -- 2. Crime Prevention -- 3. Evaluation and Crime Prevention -- Part I. Primary Prevention -- 4. The Physical Environment and Crime Prevention -- 5. Neighborhood Crime Prevention -- 6. Displacement and Diffusion -- 7. The Mass Media and Crime Prevention -- 8. Developmental crime prevention – 9. General Deterrence -- Part II. Secondary Prevention -- 10. Prediction for Secondary Prevention -- 11. Situational Crime Prevention -- 12. Partnerships for Crime Prevention -- 13. Drugs, Crime, and Crime Prevention -- 14. The School and Crime Prevention -- Part III. Tertiary Prevention -- 15. Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation -- 16. Rehabilitation -- 17. Some Closing Thoughts on Crime Prevention and the Future
Summary: This timely revision provides an up-to-date collection of the research on crime prevention. The prevailing approaches and strategies are organised into categories of primary prevention (designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance), secondary prevention (directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance), and tertiary prevention (dealing with those who have already committed offences)

Previous edition: Amsterdam: Anderson Publishing, 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Crime and the Fear of Crime -- 2. Crime Prevention -- 3. Evaluation and Crime Prevention -- Part I. Primary Prevention -- 4. The Physical Environment and Crime Prevention -- 5. Neighborhood Crime Prevention -- 6. Displacement and Diffusion -- 7. The Mass Media and Crime Prevention -- 8. Developmental crime prevention – 9. General Deterrence -- Part II. Secondary Prevention -- 10. Prediction for Secondary Prevention -- 11. Situational Crime Prevention -- 12. Partnerships for Crime Prevention -- 13. Drugs, Crime, and Crime Prevention -- 14. The School and Crime Prevention -- Part III. Tertiary Prevention -- 15. Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation -- 16. Rehabilitation -- 17. Some Closing Thoughts on Crime Prevention and the Future

This timely revision provides an up-to-date collection of the research on crime prevention. The prevailing approaches and strategies are organised into categories of primary prevention (designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance), secondary prevention (directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance), and tertiary prevention (dealing with those who have already committed offences)

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