Better Crime Prevention

ISBN-13: 9780367404369 / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str.

UK) Tilley Nick (UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science

Opis

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics and politics in relation to crime prevention policy and practice, demonstrating what is involved in doing theoretically informed and realistic applied social science orientated to reducing harms.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Crime prevention examples
3. Targeting crime prevention: costs, harms and concentrations
4. Crime prevention theories
5. Principled crime prevention?
6. Doing crime prevention
7. Evidence-based crime prevention
8. Politics of crime prevention

O autorze

Nick Tilley has taught or conducted research at Coventry University, Nottingham Trent University, The University of Minnesota, Griffith University, the Home Office, and most recently University College London. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (FAcSS) and has been awarded an OBE for services to policing and crime reduction. The Tilley Award for police problem-solving is named in his honour. He is an honorary professor at UCL, an emeritus professor at Nottingham Trent University, and a visiting professor at Huddersfield University. He is author or editor of 15 books and more than 200 chapters and journal articles, mostly to do with evaluation methodology, policing, and crime prevention.