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1 online resource (425 pages) |
Contents |
Front Cover; Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Crime and the Fear of Crime; The Problem of Crime in Society; The Costs of Crime/Victimization; The Fear of Crime; Summary; Chapter 2 Crime Prevention; Crime Prevention Through the Ages; Defining Crime Prevention; The Crime Prevention Model; Summary; Chapter 3 Evaluation and Crime Prevention; Types of Evaluation; Theory and Measurement in Evaluation; The Method for Evaluation; An Overview of the Book; Section I Primary Prevention; Chapter 4 The Physical Environment and Crime |
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Crime Prevention Through Environmental DesignImplementation of Environmental Design; The Impact of Physical Design; Product Design; Incivility, Disorder, and Crime; Summary; Chapter 5 Neighborhood Crime Prevention; Types of Neighborhood Crime Prevention Approaches; Evaluation of Neighborhood Crime Prevention; Citizen Participation and Support; Chapter Summary; Chapter 6 Displacement and Diffusion; Crime Displacement; Diffusion; Offender Choice and Mobility; Evidence of Displacement and Diffusion; Implications of Displacement and Diffusion; Chapter 7 The Mass Media and Crime Prevention |
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The Media and CrimeMass Media Crime Prevention Activities; The Media's Responsibility for Crime Prevention; Summary; Chapter 8 General Deterrence; Deterrence; Perceptions and Deterrence; Summary; Section II Secondary Prevention; Chapter 9 Prediction for Secondary Prevention; Predicting Future Offending; Risk Factors and Prediction; Predicting Places and Events; Implications for Crime Prevention; Chapter 10 Situational Crime Prevention; The Growth of Situational Prevention; The Theoretical Basis; The Process of Situational Prevention; Situational Typologies |
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Issues and Concerns with Situational PreventionSituational Prevention Studies; Summary; Chapter 11 Partnerships for Crime Prevention; Community Policing; Problem Identification; Partnership Efforts and Assessment; Successful Partnerships; Summary; Chapter 12 Drugs, Crime, and Crime Prevention; The Scope of Drug Use; The Drugs-Crime Connection; Interventions and Prevention; Drugs and Crime Prevention; Chapter 13 The School and Crime Prevention; Theoretical Views; Educational Factors and Delinquency; School Programs for Delinquency Prevention |
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The Future of School/Educational Programs in Crime PreventionSection III Tertiary Prevention; Chapter 14 Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation; The Specific Deterrent Effect of Criminal Sanctions; Incapacitation; Future Implications; Chapter 15 Rehabilitation; The "What Works?" Argument; Evaluations of Recent Rehabilitation Programs; Assessing Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention; Chapter 16 Some Closing Thoughts on Crime Prevention and the Future; The State of the Evidence; Improving Our Knowledge; Recognizing the Diversity in Crime Prevention; Summary; Glossary; References; Name Index |
Summary |
This book examines several types of crime prevention approaches and their goals, including those that are designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance, those directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance, and those for persons who have already committed crimes. This edition provides research and information on all aspects of crime prevention, including the physical environment and crime, neighborhood crime prevention, the mass media and crime prevention, crime displacement and diffusion, prediction, community policing, drugs, schools, and electronic monitoring |
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Subject Index |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-389) and indexes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Crime prevention -- United States -- Evaluation
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Crime prevention -- United States
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Crime prevention and architectural design.
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Crime prevention.
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Crime prevention
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Crime prevention and architectural design
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Crime prevention -- Evaluation
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Kriminalität
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Prävention
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United States
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781437778922 |
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1437778925 |
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9781422463277 |
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1422463273 |
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