The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention (Oxford Handbooks) - Softcover

Welsh, Brandon C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199396698 ISBN 13: 9780199396696

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Brandon C. Welsh is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

David P. Farrington is Director of Research, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology, and Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the European Association of Psychology and Law.

Review

This is an excellent book and comes highly recommended. It's a book which is informative and accessible for academics, students or those with a general interest. Written by leading academics, it's packed full of knowledge and has a clear eye on priorities for future research and future direction. Whether to be dipped in and out of or read from cover to cover, it successfully draw on decades of previous work and brings it up to date, making it more relevant than most can imagine. * Ben Hughes, Internet Journal of Criminology *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199396698
• ISBN 13: 9780199396696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560