Crime Prevention, Eighth Edition: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations 8th Edition

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Review ------ ".focuses more on situational prevention than the previous editions.The book is also thoroughly referenced and provides a glossary and index for the reader. College instructors will find this textbook easy to navigate and full of information that would assist in teaching a crime prevention course.a well-written textbook that is best suited for classes on crime prevention."--Security Management, January 2014 "This eighth edition contains a new chapter on developmental prevention, discussing the use of risk factors for predicting behavior. There is also new material on organizing dysfunctional neighborhoods and the politics of prevention strategies."--Reference & Research Book News, October 2013 Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) From the Back Cover ------------------- A thoughtful and up-to-date critical analysis of crime prevention principles and practices. This timely revision provides an up-to-date collection of the research on crime prevention. The prevailing approaches and strategies are organized into categories of primary prevention (designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance), secondary prevention (directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance), and tertiary prevention (dealing with those who have already committed offenses). The effects of physical environments, the mass media, displacement and diffusion, electronic monitoring, and home confinement are also explored. In addition to presenting a discussion of the different prevention approaches, the author provides in into the effectiveness of each approach. * A new chapter on developmental crime prevention focuses on the early life experiences that predispose individuals to commit deviant acts and using risk factors in predicting behavior for secondary prevention. * New attention is brought to situational prevention, partnerships for crime prevention, the politics of prevention strategies, and the tangential topic of organizing dysfunctional neighborhoods. * All chapters now include updated summary tables that indicate the state of the evidence as well as key terms, learning objectives, and web references. Steven P. Lab is Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program and Chair of the Department of Human Services at ing Green State University. His research interests include victims of crime, crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, and school crime. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/1455731374/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )