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Evidence-Based Crime Prevention - Hardcover

 
9780415270472: Evidence-Based Crime Prevention
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415270472 ISBN 13: 9780415270472
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of crime prevention programmes internationally. Reviewing more than 600 scientific evaluations of programmes intended to prevent crime in settings such as families, schools, labour markets and communities, this book grades programmes on their scientific validity using the 'scientific methods scale'. This collection, which brings together contributions from leading researchers in the field of crime prevention, will provide policy-makers, researchers and community leaders with an understandable source of information about what works, what does not work and what is promising in preventing crime.

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About the Author

David P. Farrington, Doris Layton MacKenzie, Lawrence W. Sherman, Brandon C. Welsh

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415270472
ISBN 13 
9780415270472
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
456
Editor
Farrington David, Layton MacKenzie Doris, Sherman Lawrence, C. Welsh Brandon