NCJ Number
117789
Journal
Justice Quarterly Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1989) Pages: 5-25
Date Published
1989
Length
21 pages
Annotation
We have reached what may be a turning point in the development of criminological thought and of social policy toward crime.
Abstract
The "conservative revolution" in criminology has lost considerable credibility, along with the entire set of minimalist strategies toward the disadvantaged that dominated social policy throughout much of the recent past. A space has opened for the development of a "social environmental" or "human ecological" approach to crime, which combines a variety of interventions on the individual and family level with an array of broader policies aimed at controlling the social and economic forces that place individuals, families, and communities at risk in the first place.