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- Integrates prevention science with theories and methods from criminology
- Examines crime prevention across multiple contexts: schools, peers, communities, and the criminal justice system
- Uses a life course/developmental approach to crime prevention
- Focuses on evidence-based programs and policies for preventing crime and violence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Prevention Science (Adv. Prevention Science)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Prevention
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Theoretical Foundations to Preventing Crime and Violence
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Life-Course Development and Crime
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Methodological Issues in the Prevention of Crime and Violence
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About this book
This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies. Its interdisciplinary perspective expands on our knowledge of risk factors to isolate the malleable mechanisms that produce criminal outcomes, and can therefore be targeted for intervention. In addition, the text identifies developmental, lifespan, and social areas for effective intervention. Reviews of family-, community-, and criminal justice-based crime prevention approaches not only detail a wide gamut of successful techniques, but also provide evidence for why they succeed. And as an extra research dimension, the book’s chapters on methodological issues and challenges uncover rich possibilities for the next generation of crime prevention studies.
Included in the coverage:- Integrating criminology and prevention research
- Social disorganization theory: its history and relevance to crime prevention
- Research designs in crime and violence prevention
- Macro- and micro-approaches to crime prevention and intervention programs
- Implications of life course: approaches for prevention science
- Promising avenues for prevention, including confronting sexual victimization on college campuses
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Atlanta, USA
Brent Teasdale
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Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Mindy S. Bradley
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preventing Crime and Violence
Editors: Brent Teasdale, Mindy S. Bradley
Series Title: Advances in Prevention Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44124-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44122-1Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82989-0Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44124-5Published: 29 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2625-2619
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2627
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Public Health, Child and School Psychology