Product Description
by Abigail A. Fagan (Author), Delbert Elliott (Author)
"When the first edition of The Prevention of Crime was published in 2017, this was the first textbook to highlight the emergence, evaluation, and effectiveness of recent approaches to crime prevention inspired by public health and life-course developmental perspectives. Differently from any other crime prevention texts (which focus primarily on traditional crime control practices guided by deterrence, rational choice, and/or routine activities theories that seek to increase punishments), this book promoted a new approach to effectively reduce crime by focussing on the life-course of the offenders"--
Author Biography
Abigail A. Fagan is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. Her research examines the causes and prevention of juvenile delinquency and drug use and how scientific knowledge can be successfully translated into effective programs and practices for preventing crime and delinquency. She is the former President of the Society for Prevention Research and the author of two books and nearly 100 articles in leading criminology, psychology, and public health journals.
Delbert Elliott is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), University of Colorado Boulder. He was the Founding Director of The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence and the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Initiative at IBS. He served as Principal Investigator for the first nine waves of the National Youth Survey and chaired the Criminal and Violent Behavior Review Committee (NIMH). Elliott was Science Editor of the U.S. Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence and is a past President and Fellow of The American Society of Criminology.
