Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations, Third Edition

• NCJ Number: 174029
• Author(s): S P Lab
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 343 pages
• Sale Source: Anderson Publishing Co
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This book attempts to raise people's awareness of crime prevention approaches and to direct their attention to the promises and shortcomings of those activities.

Abstract

Crime prevention techniques must address both the real and perceived levels of crime and must be prepared to attack crime in all its aspects. The book describes models for primary, secondary and tertiary crime prevention in the following chapters: (1) The Physical Environment and Crime; (2) Neighborhood Crime Prevention; (3) Displacement and Diffusion; (4) The Mass Media and Crime Prevention; (5) General Deterrence; (6) Social Crime Prevention; (7) Prediction for Secondary Prevention; (8) Situational Crime Prevention; (9) Community Policing; (10) Drugs, Crime and Crime Prevention; (11) The School and Crime Prevention; (12) Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation; (13) Electronic Monitoring and Home Confinement; (14) Rehabilitation; and (15) The State of the Art and the Future. Figures, tables, references, indexes