Research Catalog

Title

Evidence-based crime prevention / edited by Lawrence W. Sherman ... [et al.].

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sherman, Lawrence W.

Description

xiv, 440 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Reviewing more than 600 scientific evaluations of programs intended to prevent crime in settings such as families, schools, labor markets, places and communities, this book grades programs on their validity using "the scientific methods scale." This collection, which brings together contributions from leading researchers in the field of crime prevention, will provide policymakers, researchers and community leaders with an understandable source of information about what works, what does not work and what is promising in preventing crime."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Crime prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preventing crime / Lawrence W. Sherman [and others] -- Maryland Scientific Methods Scale / David P. Farrington [and others] -- Family-based crime prevention / David P. Farrington and Brandon C. Welsh -- School-based crime prevention / Denise G. Gottfredson, David B. Wilson and Stacy Skroban Najaka -- Communities and crime prevention / Brandon C. Welsh and Akemi Hoshi -- Labor markets and crime risk factors / Shawn D. Bushway and Peter Reuter -- Preventing crime at places / John E. Eck -- Policing for crime prevention / Lawrence W. Sherman and John E. Eck -- Reducing the criminal activities of known offenders and delinquents : crime prevention in the courts and corrections / Doris Layton MacKenzie -- Conclusion, What works, what doesn't, what's promising, and future directions / Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington.

ISBN

0415270472

LCCN

^^2001048447

OCLC

• 47863271
• SCSB-10288268

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library