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9780199943999

Making Public Places Safer Surveillance and Crime Prevention

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    9780199943999

  • ISBN10:

    0199943990

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-11-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. He is an author or editor of seven books, including Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions (OUP, 2007), Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places, and Evidence-Based Crime Prevention.

David P. Farrington, Ph.D., 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.

Table of Contents


1. Introduction
Part I: Politics, Theory, and Method
2. The Politics of Surveillance for Crime Prevention
3. How Might Surveillance Measures Reduce Crime?
4. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention
Part II: Evidence of Effectiveness
5. Closed-Circuit Television
6. Improved Street Lighting
7. Security Guards, Place Managers, and Defensible Space
Part III: Policy Choices and Challenges
8. Safer Streets, Safer Cities: Policy Choices for America
9. Conclusions and Future Directions
Appendix: Methods of Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Notes
References
Index

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