Preventing crime : a holistic approach
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Preventing crime : a holistic approach
（Crime prevention and security management）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
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Bibliography: p. 270-291
Includes index
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Description
Traditional "schools" of crime prevention, like the criminal justice model, social crime prevention or situational crime prevention, have proved to be too narrow and do not combine well with other approaches. However, each of these models provides important insights and contributions for reducing crime. By extracting the main preventive mechanisms of these diverse approaches, this book develops a more holistic, general model that consists of nine preventive mechanisms: building normative barriers to crime, reducing recruitment, deterrence, disruption, incapacitation, protecting vulnerable targets, reducing benefits of crime, reducing harm, and facilitating desistance.
The measures to activate the preventive mechanisms may differ according to the type of crime, as may the actors in charge of implementing the relevant measures. However, Tore Bjorgo demonstrates how his model of crime prevention can be effectively applied to diverse forms of crime, from domestic burglaries to criminal youth gangs and driving under the influence to organized crime and terrorism. In doing so, this important book will be of interest to scholars and students of policing, security studies and criminology, as well as practitioners and policy-makers.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Lieven Pauwels 1. Introduction: A Comprehensive Model for Preventing Crime 2. Domestic Burglary 3. Violent Youth Gangs 4. Organised Crime Originating from Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs 5. Driving Under the Influence 6. Terrorism 7. The Way Forward: Some Concluding Comments on Application and Evaluation
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