Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations Upplaga 3

Seeks to raise people's awareness of various approaches to preventing crime and the promises and shortcomings of them, rather than describing the practical mechanics of implementing them. Within sections on primary, secondary, and tertiary approaches, outlines selected programs and issues, presents the research and evaluations of them, and critiques the effort involved and their potential for preventing crime and the fear of crime. No dates are given for the previous editions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR