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  • Cross-Border Law Enforcementby Saskia Hufnagel; Clive Harfield; Simon Bronitt

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00

    This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each other decreases with every incremental increase in... more...

  • Guarding Against Crimeby Danielle M. Reynald

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95

    This ground-breaking book examines the critical role that citizens play in guarding against crime. By focusing on the ways in which residents are able to capably guard their residential environments from crime, Reynald shows how local residents function (or fail to function) as effective crime controllers. The studies contained herein are aimed at... more...

  • Crime Preventionby Steven P. Lab

    Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 53.95

    This book examines several types of crime prevention approaches and their goals, including those that are designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance, those directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance, and those for persons who have already committed crimes. This edition provides research and information on all... more...

  • Domesticating Vigilantism in Africaby Thomas G. Kirsch; Tilo Grätz

    Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 70.00

    Self-justice and legal self-help groups have been gaining importance throughout Africa. The question of who is entitled to formulate 'legal principles', enact 'justice', police 'morality' and sanction 'wrongdoings' has increasingly become a subject of controversy and conflict. These conflicts focus on the strained relationship... more...

  • Deterrence and Crime Preventionby David M. Kennedy

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95

    Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice.  Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority, works ? it is hoped -- to diminish offending... more...

  • Crime Prevention in the Built Environmentby Ted Kitchen; Richard H. Schneider

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 62.95

    With a comprehensive analysis, this book links theory, evidence and practical application to bridge gaps between planning, design and criminology. The authors investigate connections between crime prevention and development planning with an international approach, looking at initiatives in the field and incorporating an understanding of current responses... more...

  • Pervasive Preventionby Tamar Pitch

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95

    `The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences between these explanations, whilst providing a gender reading of the ways in which social control manifests itself through precautionary... more...

  • Effective Crime Reduction Strategiesby James F. Albrecht

    CRC Press 2011; US$ 129.95

    Police worldwide are finding it increasingly difficult to prevent crime and maintain public safety and a sense of security while dealing with decreasing budgets and personnel. The exchange of effective crime fighting principles and proven best practices is crucial to helping them succeed. Drawn from the proceedings at the 2005 IPES meeting in the Czech... more...

  • Principles of Security and Crime Preventionby Pamela A. Collins; Truett A. Ricks; Clifford W. Van Meter

    Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 58.95

    This introductory text provides a thorough overview of the private security system. This edition includes crime prevention and its zones of protection - the theoretical framework that provides the bridge between private and public sector law enforcement. From the historical development and the professional nature of security and crime prevention to... more...

  • Crime Prevention Through Housing Designby Dr Paul Stollard; Paul. Stollard

    Taylor and Francis 1991; US$ 90.00

    This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same. This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers... more...