Crime prevention : facts, fallacies, and the future / Henry Shaftoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaftoe, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

Debates about crime, both its causes and how to prevent it, all too often feed off misinformation and misconception. This lively and thought-provoking book gets to the core of the issues surrounding the prevention of crime.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to this complex subject, it illustrates the key role to be played in the prevention of crime by a range of professions, from planners to youth workers. It gives an overview of the successes and failures of the policies adopted by countries like the UK, the USA, France and Japan, and looks in detail at a variety of topics including: deviance and the individual offender, crime and the environment, crime prevention policies, models and frameworks, crime and the media, drugs and crime.

Accessibly written and introducing a wide range of theories and issues from both academic literature and field-based research, Crime Prevention provides a balanced and wide-ranging account for students on courses in criminology, community studies, urban studies, social policy and other applied social studies programmes, and for professionals concerned with crime and its prevention.

Contents:

Key themes and principles 4

Facts, assertions and opinions 7

Chapter 1 Fascination and Procrastination 8

1.1 What is crime? 8

1.2 Our love/hate relationship with crime 11

1.3 Crime and the media 13

1.4 Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted 15

1.5 Why wait? 18

1.6 What's gone wrong? 20

Chapter 2 The Facts about Crime, Offenders and Victimisation 22

2.1 Cutting through the chaff and bluff 22

2.2 Reporting crime 23

2.3 Recording crime 24

2.4 Victimisation studies 26

2.5 People from minorities and particular groups 29

2.6 European and international comparisons 31

2.7 The impact of crime 33

2.8 Crimes of the powerful 34

2.9 Targeting certain types of crime 35

2.10 The clear-up rate 36

2.11 Fear of crime - a problem in its own right 38

2.12 The real criminals 40

Chapter 3 Crime, Deviance and the Individual Offender 44

3.2 Classicism or rational choice theory 47

3.3 Biogenetic theories 48

3.4 Learning theory or behaviourism 51

3.5 Psychoanalytic theory 53

3.6 Labelling theory 55

3.7 Social control theory 56

3.8 Social disorganisation theory 59

3.9 Social strain theory 60

3.10 Conflict theory 62

3.11 Feminist criminology 64

3.12 Levels of explanation 65

3.13 Why aren't we all criminals? 68

Chapter 4 Crime and the Environment 73

4.2 Crime prevention through environmental design 76

4.3 Situational crime prevention 80

4.4 Location, location, location 83

4.5 Crime and urbanisation 85

4.6 Why is there less crime in rural areas? 86

4.7 Re-creating rural qualities in urban environments 89

4.8 Boundaries and edges 91

4.9 Key principles for sustainably safe places 93

4.10 Access to goods and new opportunities 94

4.11 Crime and urban regeneration 95

4.12 Policy implications 96

Chapter 5 Crime Control Models and Frameworks 98

5.2 Four overlapping considerations in developing a comprehensive crime control strategy 98

5.3 Crime control - by whom for whom? 103

5.4 Who will make the connections? 105

5.5 Intervention models 107

5.6 Cost-benefit assessment of crime prevention 115

Chapter 6 From Theory to Practice: Comparing, Implementing and Evaluating Policies 117

6.2 Compared to what? 120

6.3 Sharing crime prevention policy and practice 126

6.4 Cross-national influences 132

6.5 Evaluation and the complexity of intervening variables 140

Chapter 7 The Politics and Failures in Crime Control 145

7.2 Political whims 146

7.3 Punishment 147

7.4 Police 149

7.5 Prosperity, relative poverty and social policy 152

7.6 Crime and the American dream 154

7.7 Together we can crack crime in Britain 158

7.8 The French experience: the struggle against social exclusion 166

7.9 The Japanese model 167

7.10 A world policy snapshot 168

Chapter 8 What Works 170

8.2 Rediscovering crime prevention 172

8.3 What research can tell us - testing of theories and evaluation of practice 173

8.4 Meta-evaluations of what works and what doesn't 177

8.5 Cocktails and balancing acts 181

8.6 The limits to common sense, political expediency and the popular call for retribution 181

8.7 Long-termism: investing in programmes with durable outcomes rather than projects 183

8.8 Creating safer streets and public spaces 185

8.9 Summary: thinking globally, acting locally 195

Chapter 9 Future Prospects 197

9.1 Overview of the future 197

9.2 Opportunities and their reduction 198

9.3 The changing nature of crime and criminal behaviour 200

9.4 Crime and human nature 201

9.5 Organisation and management 202

9.6 Mainstreaming crime prevention 205

9.7 Policy and governance 206

9.8 Private security and personal profit 209

9.9 Drugs and crime 210

9.10 Exclusion or inclusion? 215

9.11 A broader vision for social policy 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-244) and index.

ISBN:

0333921275

0333921283

OCLC:

55518353

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