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How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence. These traditional means have been frequently examined and their efficacy just as frequently questioned. Promising new forms of crime prevention have emerged and expanded as important components of an overall strategy to reduce crime.
Crime prevention today has developed along three lines: interventions to improve the life chances of children and prevent them from embarking on a life of crime programs and policies designed to ameliorate the social conditions and institutions that influence offending and the modification or manipulation of the physical environment, products or systems to reduce everyday opportunities for crime. Each strategy aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance - before the act has been committed. Each, importantly, takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system, representing an alternative, perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce crime. The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention is a comprehensive, up-to-date and authoritative review of research on crime prevention. Bringing together top scholars in criminology, public policy, psychology and sociology, this Handbook includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the basis of crime prevention, evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation, evaluation methodology and public policy.
Covering the three major crime prevention strategies active today-developmental, community and situational-this definitive volume addresses seriously and critically the ways in which the United States and the Western world have attempted and should continue to strive for the of crime.
Book Features:
The first stand-alone, comprehensive account of the subject, drawing from a range of important literatures
Table of Content
Preface
Contributors
Crime Prevention and Public Policy - Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington
Part I: Developmental Crime Prevention
Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending - Francis T. Cullen, Michael L. Benson and Matthew D. Makarios
Risk and Protective Factors for Offending - David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber and Maria M. Ttofi
Preventing Crime Through Intervention in the Preschool Years - Holly S. Schindler and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Parent Training and the Prevention of Crime - Alex R. Piquero and Wesley G. Jennings
Child Social Skills Training in the Prevention of Antisocial Development and Crime - Friedrich Losel and Doris Bender
Developmental Approaches in the Prevention of Female Offending - Deborah Gorman-Smith and Alana M. Vivolo
Part II: Community Crime Prevention
Community-Level Influences on Crime and Offending - Steven F. Messner and Gregory M. Zimmerman
Disorder and Crime - Wesley G. Skogan
Poverty Deconcentration and the Prevention of Crime - Jens Ludwig and Julia Burdick-Will
Peer Influence, Mentoring and the Prevention of Crime - Christopher J. Sullivan and Darrick Jolliffe
Comprehensive Community Partnerships for Preventing Crime - Dennis P. Rosenbaum and Amie M. Schuck
Community-Based Substance Use Prevention - Abigail A. Fagan and J. David Hawkins
Schools and Prevention - Denise C. Gottfredson, Philip J. Cook and Chongmin Na
Part III: Situational Crime Prevention
Situational Crime Prevention: Classifying Techniques Using <"Good Enough>" Theory - Martha J. Smith and Ronald V. Clarke
High Crime Places, Times and Offenders - Anthony A. Braga
Crime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits - Shane D. Johnson, Rob T. Guerette and Kate J. Bowers
Place-Based Crime Prevention: Theory, Evidence and Policy - John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette
The Private Sector and Designing Products Against Crime - Paul Ekblom
Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Repeat Victimization and Its Prevention - Louise Grove and Graham Farrell
Part IV : Advancing Knowledge and Building a Safer Society
Implementing Crime Prevention: Good Governance and a Science of Implementation - Ross Homel and Peter Homel
The Importance of Randomized Experiments in Evaluating Crime Prevention - David Weisburd and Joshua C. Hinkle
Preventing Future Criminal Activities of Delinquents and Offenders - Doris Layton MacKenzie
Public Opinion and Crime Prevention: A Review of International Trends - Julian V. Roberts and Ross Hastings
The Science and Politics of Crime Prevention: Toward a New Crime Policy - Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington
IndexISBN - 9780199396696
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Pages : 560
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