The Prevention of Crime

"When the first edition of The Prevention of Crime was published in 2017, this was the first textbook to highlight the emergence, evaluation, and effectiveness of recent approaches to crime prevention inspired by public health and life-course developmental perspectives. Differently from any other crime prevention texts (which focus primarily on traditional crime control practices guided by deterrence, rational choice, and/or routine activities theories that seek to increase punishments), this book promoted a new approach to effectively reduce crime by focussing on the life-course of the offenders"--