Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations (11th Edition)

Author: Steven P. Lab

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN-10: 1032222042

ISBN-13: 978-1032222042

Publication Date: February 28, 2023

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, offers an engaging, evidence-based, and impartial exploration of interventions designed to reduce and prevent deviance. This comprehensive text examines the entire gamut of prevention strategies, ranging from physical environmental design and developmental prevention to identifying high-risk individuals and implementing situational initiatives and partnerships.

The content is organized into three essential frameworks:

• Primary Prevention: Measures designed to mitigate conditions that foster deviance.
• Secondary Prevention: Programs directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance.
• Tertiary Prevention: Interventions focused on individuals who have already committed crimes to prevent future offenses.

In this edition, Steven P. Lab provides a thorough discussion of the multi-faceted crime prevention debate using clear and accessible language. The book integrates the latest research concerning space syntax, the relationship between the physical environment and crime, neighborhood crime prevention programs, community policing, school safety, and the efficacy of electronic monitoring and home confinement.

This text serves as an essential resource for undergraduate students in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology. It balances theoretical discussion with practical evaluation, making it a foundational tool for understanding how to effectively address crime in both domestic and global contexts.