Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, And Evaluations - Couverture souple

Lab, Steven P.

 
9781593459598: Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, And Evaluations

Synopsis

Book by Lab Steven P

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book examines several types of crime prevention approaches and their goals, including those that are designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance, those directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance, and those for persons who have already committed crimes. This edition provides research and information on all aspects of crime prevention, including the physical environment and crime, neighborhood crime prevention, the mass media and crime prevention, crime displacement and diffusion, prediction, community policing, drugs, schools, and electronic monitoring and home confinement.



  • Key terms and learning objectives supplement each chapter.
  • A glossary defines terms from the text.

Biographie de l'auteur

Steven P. Lab is Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program and Chair of the Department of Human Services at Bowling Green State University. His research interests include victims of crime, crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, and school crime. Lab received his Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University in 1982. He has been a faculty member at Bowling Green since 1987. His primary research interests are in crime prevention and juvenile justice; he is the author of three textbooks and two edited works, and has published more than 30 articles on various topics.

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