TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bjorgo,Tore
ED  - Askews & Holts
TI  - Preventing crime: a holistic approach 
T2  - Crime prevention and security management
SN  - 9781137560483 (e-book)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Violence in society
KW  - thema
KW  - Crime & criminology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Police & security services
KW  - Causes & prevention of crime
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781137560476; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - This text develops a general, comprehensive model for preventing crime: one that can be applied to prevent a wide range of crimes from domestic burglaries, criminal youth gangs and driving under the influence to organized crime and terrorism. The book assesses nine 'prevention mechanisms' and shows how they reduce future acts of crime; Traditional "schools" of crime prevention, like the criminal justice model, social crime prevention or situational crime prevention, have proved to be too narrow and do not combine well with other approaches. However, each of these models provides important insights and contributions for reducing crime. By extracting the main preventive mechanisms of these diverse approaches, this book develops a more holistic, general model that consists of nine preventive mechanisms: building normative barriers to crime, reducing recruitment, deterrence, disruption, incapacitation, protecting vulnerable targets, reducing benefits of crime, reducing harm, and facilitating desistance. The measures to activate the preventive mechanisms may differ according to the type of crime, as may the actors in charge of implementing the relevant measures. However, Tore Bjorgo demonstrates how his model of crime prevention can be effectively applied to diverse forms of crime, from domestic burglaries to criminal youth gangs and driving under the influence to organized crime and terrorism. In doing so, this important book will be of interest to scholars and students of policing, security studies and criminology, as well as practitioners and policy-makers
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ER  -