Main description:

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

Spotlighting current progress and continuing evolution of the field, Preventing Crime and Violence will enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, academicians, and policymakers in public health, prevention science, criminology, and criminal justice, as well as students interested in criminology and criminal justice.

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction to Criminology, Criminal Justice and Prevention.- Definition and Scope of the Problem.- Costs of Crime.- Part 2: Theoretical Foundations to Preventing Crime and Violence.- Social Learning.- Strain.- Social Control.- Self-Control.- Social Disorganization.- Routine Activities.- Implications of Theory for Preventing Crime and Violence.- Part 3: Life Course Development and Crime.- Introduction.- Pre-Natal and Infancy.- Childhood and Pre-Adolescence.- Adolescent and Early Adulthood.- Late Adulthood/Elder Abuse.- Implications of Development for Preventing Crime and Violence.- Part 4: Methodological Issues in Crime Prevention Research.- Introduction.- Research Designs.- Propensity Score Matching.- Survival Models.- Growth Mixture Models: Criminal Careers.- Spatial Regression: Hot Spots.- Poisson and Negative Binomial Models: Crime Counts.- Cost Analytic Studies.- The Importance of Methodological Designs in the Study of Crime Prevention.- Part 5: Crime Prevention Interventions: What Works?.- Targeting Crime Prevention Across Domains.- Family Focused.- Peers/School Focused.- Community Focused.- Criminal Justice System Focused.- Part 6: Integrating Theory, Method, and Intervention: Preventing Crime and Violence. New Directions.- An International Perspective on Crime Prevention.- Implications of Prevention Science for Crime and Criminal Justice Policy.