By Brent Teasdale, Mindy S. Bradley
This insightful quantity integrates criminological theories, prevention technology, and empirical findings to create an updated survey of crime prevention study and techniques. Its interdisciplinary point of view expands on our wisdom of danger elements to isolate the malleable mechanisms that produce felony results, and will for that reason be detailed for intervention. furthermore, the textual content identifies developmental, lifespan, and social components for potent intervention. stories of family-, community-, and legal justice-based crime prevention ways not just element a large gamut of winning suggestions, but additionally offer facts for why they prevail. And as an additional examine measurement, the book’s chapters on methodological matters and demanding situations discover wealthy percentages for the following new release of crime prevention experiences.
integrated within the insurance:
- Integrating criminology and prevention research
- Social disorganization conception: its background and relevance to crime prevention
- Research designs in crime and violence prevention
- Macro- and micro-approaches to crime prevention and intervention programs
- Implications of existence direction: methods for prevention science
- Promising avenues for prevention, together with confronting sexual victimization on university campuses
Spotlighting present development and carrying on with evolution of the sector, Preventing Crime and Violence will increase the paintings of researchers, practitioners, academicians, and policymakers in public well-being, prevention technological know-how, criminology, and felony justice, in addition to scholars drawn to criminology and felony justice.
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For example, some people interpret acts such as an accidental bump as deliberate assaults. Some juveniles interpret the parental supervision 28 and discipline they experience as harsh and unfair, although most others would describe it as reasonable. Some individuals are quite frustrated by their economic circumstances, even though they are economically better off than most others. And some males interpret the outside employment of their spouses or the request that they do housework as major challenges to their masculinity.
Such a program would aim to identify those individuals and settings that are experiencing or are at high risk for criminogenic strain, both long term and situational. This might be done in several ways. Those individuals and settings experiencing criminogenic strains can in part be identified through existing records, including social service, welfare, employment, school, police, court, and other records. , neighborhoods, schools, and clinics) where strain is concentrated. Relatedly, officials working in agencies that frequently deal with strained individuals can be trained to better 3 General Strain Theory identify such individuals, perhaps administering screening instruments.
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