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Crime Prevention Steven P. Lab (Bowling Green State University)

Crime Prevention By Steven P. Lab (Bowling Green State University)

Crime Prevention by Steven P. Lab (Bowling Green State University)


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A collection of research on crime prevention, in which, the prevailing approaches are organized into: primary prevention (designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance), secondary prevention (directed toward conditions with a high potential for deviance), and tertiary prevention (dealing with those who have already committed offenses).

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Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations by Steven P. Lab (Bowling Green State University)

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 and home confinement.

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"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

About Steven P. Lab (Bowling Green State University)

Steven P. Lab is Professor of Criminal Justice and Chair of the Department of Human Services. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from the Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Dr. Lab is the author or coauthor of five books, the editor/coeditor of two readers, and coeditor of one encyclopedia. He is the author of more than 50 articles or book chapters and has presented more than 70 papers to academic or professional societies. He is a past editor of the Journal of Crime and Justice and has been an assistant editor or on the editorial boards of several additional journals. Dr. Lab has been a visiting professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science of the University College London and at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, as well as a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University (England) and a Research Consultant with the Perpetuity Research Group at Leicester University (England). Dr. Lab has received grant funding for several large research projects from the National Institute of Justice, and has served as a consultant to the Ohio Attorney General's Office, the Arizona Governor's Office, and various offices of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Lab is also a past-president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Table of Contents

1. Crime and the Fear of Crime 2. Crime Prevention 3. Evaluation and Crime Prevention Section I: Primary Prevention 4. The Physical Environment and Crime 5. Neighborhood Crime Prevention 6. Displacement and Diffusion 7. The Mass Media and Crime Prevention 8. Developmental Prevention 9. General Deterrence Section II: Secondary Prevention 10. Prediction for Secondary Prevention 11. Situational Crime Prevention 12. Partnerships for Crime Prevention 13. Drugs, Crime, and Crime Prevention 14. The School and Crime Prevention Section III: Tertiary Prevention 15. Specific Deterrence and Incapacitation 16. Rehabilitation 17. Some Closing Thoughts on Crime Prevention and the Future

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CIN1455731374G
9781455731374
1455731374
Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations by Steven P. Lab (Bowling Green State University)
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
2013-03-06
436
N/A
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