The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention

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. Crime prevention today has developed along three lines: interventions to improve the life chances of children and prevent them from embarking on a life of crime programs and policies designed to ameliorate the social conditions and institutions that influence offending and the modification or manipulation of the physical environment products or systems to reduce everyday opportunities for crime. Each strategy aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance - before the act has been committed. Each importantly takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system representing an alternative perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce crime. The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention is a comprehensive up-to-date and authoritative review of research on crime prevention. Bringing together top scholars in criminology public policy psychology and sociology this Handbook includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the basis of crime prevention evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation evaluation methodology and public policy. Covering the three major crime prevention strategies active today-developmental community and situational-this definitive volume addresses seriously and critically the ways in which the United States and the Western world have attempted and should continue to strive for the of crime.Book Features:The first stand-alone comprehensive account of the subject drawing from a range of important literaturesTable of ContentPrefaceContributorsCrime Prevention and Public Policy - Brandon C. Welsh and David P. FarringtonPart I: Developmental Crime PreventionDevelopmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending - Francis T. Cullen Michael L. Benson and Matthew D. MakariosRisk and Protective Factors for Offending - David P. Farrington Rolf Loeber and Maria M. TtofiPreventing Crime Through Intervention in the Preschool Years - Holly S. Schindler and Hirokazu YoshikawaParent Training and the Prevention of Crime - Alex R. Piquero and Wesley G. JenningsChild Social Skills Training in the Prevention of Antisocial Development and Crime - Friedrich Losel and Doris BenderDevelopmental Approaches in the Prevention of Female Offending - Deborah Gorman-Smith and Alana M. VivoloPart II: Community Crime PreventionCommunity-Level Influences on Crime and Offending - Steven F. Messner and Gregory M. ZimmermanDisorder and Crime - Wesley G. SkoganPoverty Deconcentration and the Prevention of Crime - Jens Ludwig and Julia Burdick-WillPeer Influence Mentoring and the Prevention of Crime - Christopher J. Sullivan and Darrick JolliffeComprehensive Community Partnerships for Preventing Crime - Dennis P. Rosenbaum and Amie M. SchuckCommunity-Based Substance Use Prevention - Abigail A. Fagan and J. David HawkinsSchools and Prevention - Denise C. Gottfredson Philip J. Cook and Chongmin NaPart III: Situational Crime PreventionSituational Crime Prevention: Classifying Techniques Using Theory - Martha J. Smith and Ronald V. ClarkeHigh Crime Places Times and Offenders - Anthony A. BragaCrime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits - Shane D. Johnson Rob T. Guerette and Kate J. BowersPlace-Based Crime Prevention: Theory Evidence and Policy - John E. Eck and Rob T. GueretteThe Private Sector and Designing Products Against Crime - Paul EkblomOnce Bitten Twice Shy: Repeat Victimization and Its Prevention - Louise Grove and Graham FarrellPart IV : Advancing Knowledge and Building a Safer SocietyImplementing Crime Prevention: Good Governance and a Science of Implementation - Ross Homel and Peter HomelThe Importance of Randomized Experiments in Evaluating Crime Prevention - David Weisburd and Joshua C. HinklePreventing Future Criminal Activities of Delinquents and Offenders - Doris Layton MacKenziePublic Opinion and Crime Prevention: A Review of International Trends - Julian V. Roberts and Ross HastingsThe Science and Politics of Crime Prevention: Toward a New Crime Policy - Brandon C. Welsh and David P. FarringtonIndex