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Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention 2014 Edition by Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington
How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence. These traditional means have been frequently examined and their efficacy just as frequently questioned. Promising new forms of crime prevention have emerged and expanded as important components of an overall strategyto reduce crime. Crime prevention today has developed along three lines: interventions to improve the life chances of children and prevent them from embarking on a life of crime; programs and policies designed to ameliorate the social conditions and institutions that influence offending; and the modification or manipulation of the physical environment, products, or systems to reduce everyday opportunities for crime. Each strategy aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance - before theact has been committed. Each, importantly, takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system, representing an alternative, perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce crime. The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative review of research oncrime prevention. Bringing together top scholars in criminology, public policy, psychology, and sociology, this Handbook includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the basis of crime prevention, evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions, and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation, evaluation methodology, and public policy. Covering the three major crime prevention strategies active today-developmental, community, and situational-this definitive volume addresses seriously and critically the ways in which the United States and the Western world have attempted, and should continue to strive for the of crime. Table of contents : - Preface ; Contributors ; 1. Crime Prevention and Public Policy ; Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington ; Part I: Developmental Crime Prevention ; 2. Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending ; Francis T. Cullen, Michael L. Benson, and Matthew D. Makarios ; 3. Risk and Protective Factors for Offending ; David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber, and Maria M. Ttofi ; 4. Preventing Crime Through Intervention in the Preschool Years ; Holly S. Schindler and Hirokazu Yoshikawa ; 5. Parent Training and the Prevention of Crime ; Alex R. Piquero and Wesley G. Jennings ; 6. Child Social Skills Training in the Prevention of Antisocial Development and Crime ; Friedrich Losel and Doris Bender ; 7. Developmental Approaches in the Prevention of Female Offending ; Deborah Gorman-Smith and Alana M. Vivolo ; Part II: Community Crime Prevention ; 8. Community-Level Infl uences on Crime and Offending ; Steven F. Messner and Gregory M. Zimmerman ; 9. Disorder and Crime ; Wesley G. Skogan ; 10. Poverty Deconcentration and the Prevention of Crime ; Jens Ludwig and Julia Burdick-Will ; 11. Peer Influence, Mentoring, and the Prevention of Crime ; Christopher J. Sullivan and Darrick Jolliffe ; 12. Comprehensive Community Partnerships for Preventing Crime ; Dennis P. Rosenbaum and Amie M. Schuck ; 13. Community-Based Substance Use Prevention ; Abigail A. Fagan and J. David Hawkins ; 14. Schools and Prevention ; Denise C. Gottfredson, Philip J. Cook, and Chongmin Na ; Part III: Situational Crime Prevention ; 15. Situational Crime Prevention: Classifying Techniques Using