Crime Prevention
Crime Prevention

Author: Adam Sutton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1107622476

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This book examines a range of Australian examples within an international context. Part 1 presents an overview of the history and theory of crime prevention, featuring chapters on social prevention, environmental prevention and evaluation. Part 2 explores the practice of crime prevention and the real life challenges of implementation, including policy making, prevention in public places, dealing with social disorder and planning for the future.

Contesting Crime Science
Contesting Crime Science

Author: Ronald Kramer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0520299590

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"In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson interrogate the promises of crime science and target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality. This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestations--biological, actuarial, security, and environmental sciences. Rather than holding the technological keys to crime's resolution, crime sciences inscribe criminality on particular bodies and constitute a primary resource for the conceptualizations of crime that many societies take for granted. Crime science may strive to reduce crime, but in doing so, it reproduces power asymmetries, creates profit motives, undermines important legal concepts, instantiates questionable practices, and forces open new vistas of deviant activity"--

Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice
Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice

Author: Matthew B. Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781531006013

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"This book critically examines the media to identify how crime and criminal justice are treated in the news, entertainment, and infotainment media. The book sheds light on important realities of crime and criminal justice and corrects major misconceptions created by coverage of crime and criminal justice in the media."--

Crime Prevention
Crime Prevention

Author: Stephen Schneider

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-12-16

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1498721974

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In Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, Dr. Schneider has updated every chapter in this reliable text using the latest research, the most recently published articles and books, and feedback from professors and students using the first edition. Providing an introduction to dominant approaches, key concepts, theories, and research,

Crime Prevention
Crime Prevention

Author: Daniel Gilling

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781857284911

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.