Preventing Crime and Violence
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Beschreibung
This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies. Its interdisciplinary perspective expands on our knowledge of risk factors to isolate the malleable mechanisms that produce criminal outcomes, and can therefore be targeted for intervention. In addition, the text identifies developmental, lifespan, and social areas for effective intervention. Reviews of family-, community-, and criminal justice-based crime prevention approaches not only detail a wide gamut of successful techniques, but also provide evidence for why they succeed. And as an extra research dimension, the book’s chapters on methodological issues and challenges uncover rich possibilities for the next generation of crime prevention studies.
Included in the coverage:
Integrating criminology and prevention research
Social disorganization theory: its history and relevance to crime prevention
Research designs in crime and violence prevention
Macro- and micro-approaches to crime prevention and intervention programs
Implications of life course: approaches for prevention science
Promising avenues for prevention, including confronting sexual victimization on college campuses
Spotlighting current progress and continuing evolution of the field, Preventing Crime and Violence will enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, academicians, and policymakers in public health, prevention science, criminology, and criminal justice, as well as students interested in criminology and criminal justice.
This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies. Its interdisciplinary perspective expands on our knowledge of risk factors to isolate the malleable mechanisms that produce criminal outcomes, and can therefore be targeted for intervention. In addition, the text identifies developmental, lifespan, and social areas for effective intervention. Reviews of family-, community-, and criminal justice-based crime prevention approaches not only detail a wide gamut of successful techniques, but also provide evidence for why they succeed. And as an extra research dimension, the book’s chapters on methodological issues and challenges uncover rich possibilities for the next generation of crime prevention studies.
Included in the coverage:- Integrating criminology and prevention research
- Social disorganization theory: its history and relevance to crime prevention
- Research designs in crime and violence prevention
- Macro- and micro-approaches to crime prevention and intervention programs
- Implications of life course: approaches for prevention science
- Promising avenues for prevention, including confronting sexual victimization on college campuses
Integrates prevention science with theories and methods from criminology Examines crime prevention across multiple contexts: schools, peers, communities, and the criminal justice system Uses a life course/developmental approach to crime prevention Focuses on evidence-based programs and policies for preventing crime and violence Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Brent Teasdale
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“This multiple author, multidisciplinary book extensively covers current theory, research design, and evidence-based primary and secondary prevention programs. … this book offers a broad and challenging look at the scope of this serious problem, as well as possible solutions that do not involve increased incarceration. … This book will be a useful reference for crime prevention scholars and for graduate students in this and related areas. … The book is comprehensive and the chapters are well written … .” (Jeanne Funk Brockmyer, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (12), March, 2017)
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