Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, 9th Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of the origins of crime, as well as of public policy that can reduce or prevent deviance. The book examines a range of approaches to preventing crime and elucidates their respective goals. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance; secondary prevention measures directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance; and tertiary prevention measures to deal with 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 programs, community policing, crime in schools, and electronic monitoring and home confinement. Lab offers a thorough and well-rounded discussion of the many sides of the crime prevention debate, in clear and accessible language.
- ISBN10 0323357725
- ISBN13 9780323357722
- Publish Date 26 February 2016 (first published 1 April 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 29 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Anderson Publishing
- Edition 9th New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 452
- Language English