Stephen Schneider

Gebundenes Buch

Crime Prevention

Theory and Practice, Second Edition

Beschreibung

This reliable text has been updated using the latest research, the most recently published articles and books, and feedback from professors and students using the first edition. Providing an introduction to dominant approaches, key concepts, theories, and research, it supplies concrete advice on planning, implementing, and evaluating a crime prevention plan. This edition includes a new chapter applying crime prevention through social development principles to adolescents and young adults and updates the extant literature on crime prevention. Learning objectives, discussion questions, and exercises facilitate learning and retention and a companion website provides ancillary material for students and professors.

Autor

Stephen R. Schneider, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His main areas of expertise and interest include crime prevention, organized crime, and policing and law enforcement. He has worked in the field of crime prevention for more than 20 years as a scholar, researcher, community-based practitioner, consultant, and government policy analyst. Dr. Schneider has assisted numerous community groups in developing and implementing crime prevention plans. He most recently completed a report on how to prevent and control serious and chronic criminal offending by youth and young adults for the Halifax Mayor's Roundtable on Violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 185mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781466577114
• ISBN-10: 1466577118
• Artikelnr.: 39565831