Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington
How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence. These traditional means have been
frequently examined and their efficacy just as frequently questioned. Promising new forms of crime prevention have emerged and expanded as important components of an overall strategy to reduce crime.
Crime prevention today has developed along three lines: interventions to improve the
life chances of children and prevent them from embarking on a life of crime; programs and policies designed to ameliorate the social conditions and institutions that influence offending; and the modification or manipulation of the physical environment, products, or systems to reduce everyday
opportunities for crime. Each strategy aims at preventing crime or criminal offending in the first instance - before the act has been committed. Each, importantly, takes place outside of the formal criminal justice system, representing an alternative, perhaps even socially progressive way to reduce
crime. The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative review of research on crime prevention. Bringing together top scholars in criminology, public policy, psychology, and sociology, this Handbook includes critical reviews of the main theories that form the
basis of crime prevention, evidence-based assessments of the effectiveness of the most important interventions, and cross-cutting essays that examine implementation, evaluation methodology, and public policy.
Covering the three major crime prevention strategies active
today-developmental, community, and situational-this definitive volume addresses seriously and critically the ways in which the United States and the Western world have attempted, and should continue to strive for the prevention of crime.
Preface
Contributors
1. Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington: Crime Prevention and Public Policy
PART I: Developmental Crime Prevention
2. Francis T. Cullen, Michael L. Benson, and Matthew D. Makarios: Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending
3. David P.
Farrington, Rolf Loeber, and Maria M. Ttofi: Risk and Protective Factors for Offending
4. Holly S. Schindler and Hirokazu Yoshikawa: Preventing Crime through Intervention in the Preschool Years
5. Alex R. Piquero and Wesley G. Jennings: Parent Training and the Prevention of Crime
6.
Friedrich L"sel and Doris Bender: Child Skills Training in the Prevention of Antisocial Development and Crime
7. Deborah Gorman-Smith and Alana M. Vivolo: Developmental Approaches in the Prevention of Female Offending
PART II: Community Crime Prevention
8. Steven F. Messner and
Gregory M. Zimmerman: Community-Level Influences on Crime and Offending
9. Wesley G. Skogan: Disorder and Crime
10. Jens Ludwig and Julia Burdick-Will: Poverty Deconcentration and the Prevention of Crime
11. Christopher J. Sullivan and Darrick Jolliffe: Peer Influence, Mentoring, and the
Prevention of Crime
12. Dennis P. Rosenbaum and Amie M. Schuck: Comprehensive Community Partnerships for Preventing Crime
13. Abigail A. Fagan and J. David Hawkins: Community-Based Substance Use Prevention
14. Denise C. Gottfredson, Philip J. Cook, and Chongmin Na: School-Based Crime
Prevention
PART III: Situational Crime Prevention
15. Martha J. Smith and Ronald V. Clarke: Situational Crime Prevention: Classifying Techniques Using 'Good Enough' Theory
16. Anthony A. Braga: gh Crime Places, Times, and Offenders
17. Shane D. Johnson, Rob T. Guerette, and
Kate J. Bowers: Crime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits
18. John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette: Place-Based Crime Prevention: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
19. Paul Ekblom: The Private Sector and Designing Products against Crime
20. Louise Grove and Graham Farrell: Once Bitten, Twice
Shy? Repeat Victimization and its Prevention
PART IV: Advancing Knowledge and Building a Safer Society
21. Ross Homel and Peter Homel: Implementing Crime Prevention: Good Governance and a Science of Implementation
22. David Weisburd and Joshua C. Hinkle: The Importance of
Randomized Experiments in Evaluating Crime Prevention
23. Doris Layton MacKenzie: Preventing Future Criminal Activities of Delinquents and Offenders
24. Julian V. Roberts and Ross Hastings: Public Opinion and Crime Prevention: A Review of International Trends
25. Brandon C. Welsh and
David P. Farrington: The Science and Politics of Crime Prevention: Toward a New Crime Policy
Index
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Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge
University. He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the European Association of Psychology and Law.
