Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations | 11 Edition

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Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention, from physical design to developmental prevention to identifying high-risk individuals to situational initiatives to partnerships and beyond. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance; secondary prevention measures directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance; and tertiary prevention measures to deal with persons who have already committed crimes. In this book, Lab offers a thorough and well-rounded discussion of the many sides of the crime prevention debate in clear and accessible language, including the latest research concerning space syntax, physical environment and crime, neighborhood crime prevention programs, community policing, crime in schools, and electronic monitoring and home confinement. Appropriate for undergraduates studying criminal justice, criminology, and sociology in the US and globally, this enhanced eBook version is equipped with pop-up definitions to key terms and abbreviations as well as links to web activities, allowing readers to expand their knowledge of the principles and applications of crime prevention without needing to leave the page. Additional resources are available online for instructors. This ebook+ version includes the following enhancements: pop-up definitions to key terms live links to web activities, allowing readers to expand their knowledge of the principals and applications of crime prevention without needing to leave the page flash cards at the end of each chapter to test knowledge of key terms