A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime: Focused Deterrence, Legitimacy, and Prevention

by Anthony A. Braga and David M Kennedy

This Element examines an increasingly important community crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence. This strategy seeks to change offender behavior by understanding underlying crime-producing dynamics and conditions that sustain recurring crime problems, and implementing a blended set of law enforcement, community mobilization, and social service actions. The approach builds on recent theorizing on optimizing deterrence, mobilizing informal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108940064
• ISBN13: 9781108940061
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"