Brandon C Welsh

Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims and Places Brandon C Welsh 1st ed. 2006. 2nd printing 2007 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: What Works for Children.- Evidence-Based Crime Prevention.- Early Parent Training.- Child Social Skills Training.- What Works for Offenders.- Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions.- Boot Camps.- Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs.- Incarceration-Based Drug Treatment.- Costs and Benefits of Sentencing.- What Works for Victims.- Mandated Batterer Intervention Programs to Reduce Domestic Violence.- Restorative Justice to Reduce Victimization.- Preventing Repeat Residential Burglary Victimization.- What Works for Places.- Policing Crime Hot Spots.- Closed-Circuit Television Surveillance.- Improved Street Lighting.- Policy Choices for A Safer Society.- Conclusions and Directions From Evidence-Based Crime Prevention. Description for Sales People: Crime prevention should be rational and should be based on the best possible evidence. This book is about evidence-based crime prevention. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime. The book brings together the leading scientific evidence. It covers important and topical interventions, including child skills training, cognitive-behavioral therapy, restorative justice, repeat victimization, hot spots policing, and CCTV. Publisher Marketing: This book is about evidence-based crime prevention. A project of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group, Preventing Crime brings together the leading scientific evidence on what works best for a wide range of interventions organized around four important domains in criminology: at-risk children, offenders, victims, and places. It is the first book to assess the effectiveness of criminological interventions using the most rigorous review methodology of the systematic review. It is an indispensable guide to the leading scientific evidence on what works best to prevent crime.

Contributor Bio:  Welsh, Brandon C Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam. His research interests focus on the prevention of crime and delinquency and evidence-based crime policy. Dr. Welsh has published extensively in these areas and is an author or editor of seven books. Born in Canada, he received his undergraduate and M. A. degrees at the University of Ottawa and his Ph. D. from Cambridge University in England. Contributor Bio:  Farrington, David P David P. Farrington is emeritus professor of psychological criminology and Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His major research interest is in the longitudinal study of delinquency and crime.