Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations - Softcover

Lab, Steven P.

 
9781583605097: Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations

Synopsis


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 m media and crime prevention, crime displacement and diffusion, prediction, community policing, , schools, and electronic monitoring and home confinement.


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About the Author

Steven P. Lab is Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program and Chair of the Department of Human Services at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include victims of crime, crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, and school crime.

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