Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations by Lab, Steven P.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781455731374.

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.