Pathways and Crime Prevention

This book has two goals: to contribute to a better understanding of pathways into and out of crime, and to improve prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention before crime and related problems emerge or become entrenched.Pathways and Crime Prevention explores new evidence from research on pathways using qualitative and ethnographic methods as well as quantitative approaches, and also draws on new work in the field of developmental prevention. It addresses a number of key problems, including:the theorisation of pathways, social context and human agency,the influence of poverty and social exclusion on pathways towards adulthood and towards crime, andthe ways in which learnings from prevention research can be translated into effective policies and practice.Pathways and Crime Prevention argues that broadening the research questions and exploring contributions from a wide range of disciplines will greatly enhance our understanding of both pathways and the type of interventions that might work.