Evidence-Based Crime Prevention
eBook - ePub

Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

About this book

Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of crime prevention programmes internationally. Reviewing more than 600 scientific evaluations of programmes intended to prevent crime in settings such as families, schools, labour markets and communities, this book grades programmes on their scientific validity using the 'scientific methods scale'. This collection, which brings together contributions from leading researchers in the field of crime prevention, will provide policy-makers, researchers and community leaders with an understandable source of information about what works, what does not work and what is promising in preventing crime.

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Yes, you can access Evidence-Based Crime Prevention by David P. Farrington, Doris Layton MacKenzie, Lawrence W. Sherman, Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington,Doris Layton MacKenzie,Lawrence W. Sherman,Brandon C. Welsh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
eBook ISBN
9781134489824
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of tables
  7. Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Preventing crime
  11. 2 The Maryland Scientific Methods Scale
  12. 3 Family-based crime prevention
  13. 4 School-based crime prevention
  14. 5 Communities and crime prevention
  15. 6 Labor markets and crime risk factors
  16. 7 Preventing crime at places
  17. 8 Policing for crime prevention
  18. 9 Reducing the criminal activities of known offenders and delinquents Crime prevention in the courts and corrections
  19. 10 Conclusion What works, what doesn't, what's promising, and future directions
  20. Index