Overview
- The first book to examine evidence-based crime prevention through the use of the rigorous methodology of systematic reviews
- An indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime
- Brings together the leading experts on evidence-based crime prevention from across the world
- Covers important and topical interventions, including child skills training, cognitive-behavioral therapy, restorative justice, repeat victimization, hot spots policing, and CCTV
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Evaluation Research on Correctional Treatment in West Germany: A Meta-Analysis
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What Works for Children
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Front Matter
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What Works for Offenders
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Front Matter
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What Works for Places
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Front Matter
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Policy Choices for a Safer Society
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Crime prevention should be rational and should be based on the best possible evidence. Decision-makers should weigh heavily any available evidence on what works best. How can a program that has produced no discernable evidence of effectiveness, as shown through numerous evaluations, be considered for implementation? Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Evidence-based crime prevention attempts to overcome this and other obstacles by ensuring that the best available evidence is considered in any decision to implement a program designed to prevent crime. This book is about evidence-based crime prevention.
A project of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Preventing Crime brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and places. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous review methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preventing Crime
Book Subtitle: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places
Editors: Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4244-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4243-0Published: 22 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7083-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4244-7Published: 30 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Sciences, general