Karen M. Evans

Crime Prevention

A Critical Introduction

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How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been put in place in recent years in an attempt to manage the level of crime in our society.The book also assesses how governments' approaches to serious crime, the war on terror, human rights and race and immigration policies have influenced ideas about community safety and crime prevention. It offers a handy glossary, along with suggestions for further reading, in order to enhanc… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84787-068-1
EAN: 9781847870681
Produktnummer: 5662788
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H24.2 cm x B17.4 cm x D1.2 cm 352 g
Gewicht: 352
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

I joined the Institute of Education in 2001 as Chair in Education (Lifelong Learning). I was Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development between 2001 and 2005. I currently play a leading role in the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES). My main fields of comparative and international research are learning in life and work transitions, and adult learning in, for and through the workplace. I have directed and co-directed 16 major studies of learning and working life in Britain and internationally, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, charitable institutions (including the Leverhulme Trust, the Anglo-German Foundation) the European Commission and a range of government agencies