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  • Between Medicine and Criminology

    Richard Cabot and the Making of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study

    de Brandon C. Welsh, Steven N. Zane, Scott H. Podolsky ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    In 1935, Richard Cabot (1868-1939), a renowned physician and professor of clinical medicine and social ethics at Harvard University, founded the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Appalled by high recidivism rates of reformatories of the day, Cabot wanted to do something to help young, underprivileged boys from engaging in delinquency and embarking on a life of crime. Described as character ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Crime and Justice Policy

    de Daniel P. Mears ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The need for and the threats to improved public policy are equally acute. Crime policy agenda continues to be driven by anecdotal evidence and political ideology, resulting in a patchwork of programs, policies, and practices. All-too-frequently, the need for them is uncertain, they rest on unclear theoretical foundations, they are implemented poorly, and their effectiveness in preventing or ... Leer más

    $149.39 USD

  • The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policing

    Innovations in Bridging the Research-Practice Divide

    Edición de Eric L. Piza, Brandon C. Welsh ...
    Evidence-based policing is based on the straightforward, but powerful, idea that crime prevention and crime control policy should be based on what works best in promoting public safety, as determined by the best available scientific evidence. Bringing together leading academics and practitioners, this book explores a wide range of case studies from around the world that best exemplify the ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Saving Children from a Life of Crime

    Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

    de David P. Farrington, Brandon C. Welsh ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness ... Leer más

    $35.09 USD

  • Experimental Criminology

    Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy

    Edición de Brandon C. Welsh, Anthony A. Braga, Gerben J. N. Bruinsma ...
    Experimental criminology is a part of a larger and increasingly expanding scientific research and evidence-based movement in social policy. The essays in this volume report on new and innovative contributions that experimental criminology is making to basic scientific knowledge and public policy. Contributors explore cutting-edge experimental and quasi-experimental methods and their application to ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Making Public Places Safer

    Surveillance and Crime Prevention

    de Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States, hundreds of video surveillance systems are being installed in town centers, public transportation facilities, and schools at a cost exceeding $100 million annually. And now other Western countries have begun to experiment with CCTV to prevent crime ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

    Edición de Doris Layton MacKenzie, Brandon C. Welsh, David Farrington, Lawrence Sherman ...
    Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of crime ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

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  • Family Violence Across the Lifespan

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  • Rethinking Domestic Violence

    de Donald G. Dutton ...
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  • Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

    Edición de Andrea Nichols, Tonya Edmond, , Ph.D., Erin Heil, , Ph.D. ...
    As awareness and identification of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, using case examples and illustrative guides. Chapters cover the common challenges of working with trafficked and exploited people and how to ... Leer más

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  • Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology

    A Text and Reader

    de Christine Tartaro ...
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