Brandon C. Welsh

Making Public Places Safer: Surveillance and Crime Prevention

Buch

Making Public Places Safer is the first book to assess the effectiveness and social costs of the most important surveillance methods to prevent crime in public space: CCTV, improved street lighting, security guards, place managers, and defensible space. Importantly, the book goes beyond the question of Does it work? and examines the specific conditions and contexts under which these surveillance methods may have an effect on crime as well as themechanisms that bring about a reduction in crime. Making Public Places Safer is a timely and reliable guide at a time when cities need cost-effective methods to fight crime and the public gradually… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Farrington, David P.

ISBN: 978-0-19-532621-5
EAN: 9780195326215
Produktnummer: 22404767
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 408 g
Gewicht: 408

Über den Autor

Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. He is an author or editor of seven books, including Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions (OUP, 2007), Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders, Victims, and Places, andEvidence-Based Crime Prevention. David P. Farrington, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, and the European Association of Psychology and Law.