Crime and Justice, Volume 19, Volume 19: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention

Book Overview

We elect officials in hopes that they will make our communities safer, yet their widely-endorsed law enforcement strategies have little effect on crime rates. Active crime prevention must take into account the diversity of crimes and criminals. High-quality evaluation research designs are needed to convince scholars, policy makers, and practitioners about the effectiveness of crime prevention techniques. Building a Safer Society, the most comprehensive exposition of research and experience concerning crime prevention ever published, offers a new conceptualization of the subject incorporating developmental, community, situational and law enforcement approaches. This timely collection will especially interest scholars in law, criminal justice, public policy and public administration.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226808246
• ISBN13: 9780226808246
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"