Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

ISBN-13: 9780195398823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 560 str.

Brandon C Welsh

Opis

How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence. These traditional means have been frequently examined and their efficacy just as frequently questioned. Promising new forms of crime prevention have emerged and expanded as important components of an overall strategy to reduce crime.

Recenzje

This is an excellent book and comes highly recommended. It's a book which is informative and accessible for academics, students or those with a general interest. Written by leading academics, it's packed full of knowledge and has a clear eye on priorities for future research and future direction. Whether to be dipped in and out of or read from cover to cover, it successfully draw on decades of previous work and brings it up to date, making it more relevant than most can imagine.

O autorze

Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the European Association of Psychology and Law.