Crime Prevention

This new text, written by a collection of scholarly experts, presents significant issues related to contemporary crime prevention efforts. It is interdiscplinary it its approach making it appropriate for courses within a criminal justice or sociology curriculum. Co-Editor and author, Professor Mackey, begins by emphasizing the importance of crime prevention as it relates to financial and social costs and introduces students to the theoretical models of crime prevention.The organization parallels the medical model of crime prevention; primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention efforts. Topics covered include, policing and crime prevention, preventing terrorism, technology and crime, programs for deliquency prevention and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, prevention of sex offenses, and efforts to prevent white collar crime.

Chapter1 Introduction to Crime Prevention
Chapter2 Primary Interventions: Crime Prevention in the Family and Schools
Chapter3 Policing and Crime Prevention
Chapter4 Guns and Crime: Crime Facilitation versus Crime Prevention
Chapter5 Problem-Oriented Policing and Open-Air Drug Markets: Examining the Rockford Pulling Levers Deterrence Strategy
Chapter6 Preventing Terrorism
Chapter7 Technology & Crime Prevention
Chapter8 Spatial Analysis of Property Crimes, Foreclosure and Other Socio-Economic Variables: An Examination of Garfield Heights, Ohio
Chapter9 Employing surveillance in situational crime prevention
Chapter10 The "X-Rated X-Ray": Reconciling Fairness, Privacy, and Security*
Chapter11 Sentencing Philosophies and Intermediate Sanctions
Chapter12 Promising Programs for Delinquency Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders
Chapter13 Adult Offender recidivism reduction programs
Chapter14 Prevention of Sex Offenses and Sex Offenders
Chapter15 Preventing White Collar Crime
Chapter16 Preventing Crimes Against Special Populations
Chapter17 Introduction to Comparative Issues of Crime Prevention
Chapter18 Life on the Atoll: Singapore Ecology as a Neglected Dimension of Social Order
Chapter19 Lessons learned about Low Crime Rates in Japan: Field notes from interviews with Japanese police officers
Chapter20 Nash in Najaf: Game Theory and Its Applicability to the Iraqi Conflict