NCJ Number
99315
Date Published
1984
Length
184 pages
Annotation
This book describes and presents evaluation findings for specific comprehensive juvenile delinquency prevention programs, general comprehensive crime prevention programs, and prevention programs that target particular types of offenses.
Abstract
Following a review of state-of-the art delinquency prevention, case studies of delinquency prevention experiments are presented, including juvenile awareness programs. An overview of the effectiveness of general crime prevention programs focuses on both police and citizen crime prevention, with particular attention to strategies of police patrol, environmental design, gun control, and mass media crime prevention campaigns. A chapter is devoted to crime prevention in other countries. Chapters on programs that target specific crimes encompass arson, auto theft, burglary, crimes against children, domestic violence, crimes against the elderly, employee theft, organized crime, rape, robbery, rural crime, shoplifting, vandalism, and crime in mass transit systems. Overall, the study concludes that crime prevention programs, particularly police efforts, have done little to reduce crime and that some have potentially negative consequences (such as increased costs and crime displacement). Chapter footnotes, a 35-item bibliography, and a subject index are provided.