NCJ Number
175584
Editor(s)
S P Lab
Date Published
1997
Length
211 pages
Annotation
These 10 papers examine crime prevention from varied perspectives and present theoretical and empirical research on preventing crime and fear of crime.
Abstract
The first chapter reviews the history of crime prevention and summarizes current issues and challenges, including competing theoretical bases for interventions, the adequacy of program implementation, political reality, inadequate evaluation, and potential displacement and diffusion of benefits. Additional papers present a revised classification of techniques for situational crime prevention, examine control theory and the general theory of crime, and discuss conflicts and tradeoffs in crime prevention planning. Further papers focus on the relative impacts of neighborhood structure, crime, and physical deterioration on residents and business personnel in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.; describe the conditions needed for successful community crime prevention; and discuss victimization on college campuses and its implications for crime prevention on campus. Other papers discuss school crime prevention, economic inequality and its implications for community crime prevention, and the actions of the national news media and legislatures in relation to crime prevention and crime control policies. Figures, tables, chapter notes, index, and approximately 300 references