Crime Prevention Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations

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Crime Prevention: Approaches, Pracces, and Evaluaons, Eleventh Edion, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, imparal coverage of intervenons that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edion examines the enre gamut of prevenon, from physical design, to developmental prevenon, to idenfying high-risk individuals, to situaonal iniaves, to partnerships, and beyond. Strategies include primary prevenon measures designed to prevent condions that foster deviance, secondary prevenon measures directed toward persons or condions with a high potenal for deviance, and terary prevenon measures to deal with persons who have already commied crimes. In this book, Lab offers a thorough and well-rounded discussion of the many sides of the crime prevenon debate in clear and accessible language, including the latest research concerning space syntax, physical environment and crime, neighborhood crime prevenon programs, community policing, crime in schools, and electronic monitoring and home confinement. This book is essenal for undergraduates studying criminal jusce, criminology, and sociology, in the U.S. and globally. Online resources include an instructor’s manual, test bank, and lecture slides for faculty, and a wide array of resources for students.

Steven P. Lab is an Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at Bowling Green State University where he served as Director of Criminal Justice for 27 years and Chair of Human Services for 17 years. He holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from the Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. <br><br> Lab is the author or co-author of eight books, co-editor of one encyclopedia, and author of more than 50 articles and book chapters. He is Assistant Editor of Crime Prevention & Community Safety: An International Journal and a past editor of the Journal of Crime and Justice. <br><br> Lab has been a Visiting Professor in the U.K., at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London and at Keele University in Staffordshire, as well as a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University and a Research Consultant with the Perpetuity Research Group at Leicester University. Lab is also a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Steven P. Lab

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