The Prevention of Crime provides a unique and comprehensive overview of effective crime prevention programs, strategies and policies, demonstrating how criminological theories, research, and practice are interrelated. Offers the most cutting-edge, comprehensive summaries of effective interventions based on the latest research, by the foremost scholars on the topic of crime prevention in the U.S. Provides unique practical information and discussions on how to effectively replicate prevention strategies in communities and criminal-justice settings is highly relevant to students, providing them with the latest research in this area Coverage of multiple theories of crime includes the more recent public-health and life-course developmental perspectives Includes a comprehensive review of the increasing number of effective crime prevention interventions and the practicalities of ensuring that these programs, practices and policies are effectively implemented, both in the U.S and in other countries Presents the most cutting-edge current and optimistic view regarding crime prevention: that it is possible to effectively reduce crime but that efforts need to start early in communities and continue through the life-course

The Prevention of Crime provides a unique and comprehensive overview of effective crime prevention programs, strategies and policies, demonstrating how criminological theories, research, and practice are interrelated.* Offers the most cutting-edge, comprehensive summaries of effective interventions based on the latest research, by the foremost scholars on the topic of crime prevention in the U.S.* Provides unique practical information and discussions on how to effectively replicate prevention strategies in communities and criminal-justice settings is highly relevant to students, providing them with the latest research in this area* Coverage of multiple theories of crime includes the more recent public-health and life-course developmental perspectives* Includes a comprehensive review of the increasing number of effective crime prevention interventions and the practicalities of ensuring that these programs, practices and policies are effectively implemented, both in the U.S and in other countries* Presents the most cutting-edge current and optimistic view regarding crime prevention: that it is possible to effectively reduce crime but that efforts need to start early in communities and continue through the life-course

Preface viiAcknowledgments ixAbout the Companion Website xSection I Introduction to Crime Prevention 11 The Goals and Logic of Crime Prevention 32 A Brief History of Crime Prevention 31Section II The Foundations of Crime Prevention 673 How Theory and Research Inform the Science and Practice of Crime Prevention 694 Evaluation Science 1055 Establishing a Standard for Judging Intervention Effectiveness 139Section III What Works to Prevent Crime? 1656 Situational and Legal Crime Prevention Practices, Programs, and Policies 1677 Contextual Interventions 1998 Individual?]Level Crime Prevention: Preventing the Onset of Crime 2449 Individual?]Level Crime Prevention: Reducing the Continuity of Offending 274Section IV Crime Prevention in Practice 29910 Selecting and Implementing Effective Crime Prevention Practices, Programs, and Policies 30111 Implementation Science: Taking Effective Crime Prevention Programs, Practices, and Policies to Scale 32812 The Future of Crime Prevention 360Glossary 379Author Index 388Subject Index 400