Full Description
This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and how they are applied across a wide range of themes and infractions, from conventional to non-conventional forms of crime. Based on a review of the literature, this is the first text to offer a broad, yet comprehensive, examination of how and why crime prevention has gained considerable traction as an alternative to conventional criminal justice practices of crime control in developed countries, and to provide a cross-sectional view of how crime prevention has been applied and how effective such initiatives have been. Crime Prevention: International Perspectives, Issues, and Trends is suitable for undergraduate students in criminology and criminal justice programs, as well as for graduates and undergraduates in special topics courses.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgement
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Introduction
The Transformative Power of the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Crime Prevention Education for a New Culture of Lawfulness
Preventing Violence against Children: The UN Model Strategies
Crime Prevention and Transportation Systems
Primary Prevention of Child Abuse: Applications, Effectiveness, and International Innovations
Preventing Domestic Violence: An International Overview
Preventing Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: Ending Demand
Community Crime Prevention and Punishment
Social Crime Prevention: Concepts, Developments, and Challenges
Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention: Constructive Alternative or Soft Option?
Prevention of Femicide
Terrorism Crime Prevention Policies in Liberal Democracies: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Options
The Criminalization of Poverty
Preventing Corporate Crime
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Crime Prevention and the Victims—Lessons Learned from Victimology
The Policies of Crime Prevention
Smarter Crime Control: Putting Prevention Knowledge into Practice
Safeguarding Sustainable Crime Prevention: The Rocky Case of the Netherlands
The Value of Crime Prevention: Avoiding the Direct, Indirect, and Societal Costs of Crime
Index
