Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places / Edition 1

by Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington

Overview

Crime prevention should be rational and should be base on the best possible evidence. Decision-makers should weigh heavily any available evidence on what works best. How can a program that has produced no discernable evidence of effectiveness, as shown through numerous evaluations, be considered for implementation? Unfortunately, this happens all the time. Evidence-based crime prevention attempts to overcome this and other obstacle by ensuring that the best available evidence is considered in any decision to implement a program designed to prevent crime. This book is about evidence-based crime prevention.

A project of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Preventing Crime brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and place. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous review methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387691688
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	08/08/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006. 2nd printing 2007
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword   Jerry Lee     vii
Preface   Brandon C. Welsh   David P. Farrington     ix
Evidence-Based Crime Prevention   Brandon C. Welsh   David P. Farrington     1
What Works for Children
Early Parent Training   Odette Bernazzani   Richard E. Tremblay     21
Child Social Skills Training   Friedrich Losel   Andreas Beelmann     33
What Works for Offenders
Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions   Mark W. Lipsey   Nana A. Landenberger     57
Boot Camps   David B. Wilson   Doris Layton MacKenzie     73
Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs   Anthony Petrosino   Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino   John Buehler     87
Incarceration-Based Drug Treatment   Ojmarrh Mitchell   Doris Layton MacKenzie   David B. Wilson     103
Costs and Benefits of Sentencing   Cynthia McDougall   Mark A. Cohen   Amanda Perry   Raymond Swaray     117
What Works for Victims
Mandated Batterer Intervention Programs to Reduce Domestic Violence   Lynette Feder   David B. Wilson     131
Restorative Justice to Reduce Victimization   Heather Strang   Lawrence W. Sherman     147
Preventing Repeat Residential Burglary Victimization   Graham Farrell   Ken Pease     161
What Works for Places
Policing Crime Hot Spots   Anthony A. Braga     179
Closed-Circuit Television Surveillance   Brandon C. Welsh   David P. Farrington     193
Improved Street Lighting   David P. Farrington   Brandon C. Welsh     209
Policy Choices for A Safer Society
Conclusions and Directions from Evidence-Based Crime Prevention   Brandon C. Welsh   David P. Farrington     227
Index     239