Perry / McDougall / Farrington Reducing Crime

The Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Interventions
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-02375-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law

Based on extensive research initiated by the UK Home Office, Reducing Crime offers an objective look at the effectiveness of criminal justice interventions in the reduction of crime. Bringing together information about where, for whom and at what cost these interventions are effective, the book examines alcohol prevention and drug treatment studies; courts, sentencing and police interventions; probation and prison interventions; and situational burglary and housing interventions. In addition to a cost/benefits analysis of each intervention, the book also discusses future research and policy directions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perry, Amanda

McDougall, Cynthia

Farrington, David P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Series Preface.
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
1. Reducing Crime (Cynthia McDougall, Amanda E. Perry and DavidP. Farrington).
2. Methodology of the UK Review of Evidence (Amanda E.Perry).
3. Alcohol and Drug Treatments (Mary McMurran).
4. Diversion from Prosecution at Court and Effective Sentencing(Carol Hedderman and Mike Hough).
5. Probation and Prison Interventions (Caroline Friendship andMia Debidin).
6. CCTV and Street Lighting: Comparative Effects on Crime(Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington).
7. Situational Burglary and Housing Interventions (TrevorBennett).
8. Economic Methodology and Evaluations: The Costs and Benefitsof Criminal Justice Interventions (Raymond Swaray).
9. Overview of Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Interventionsin the UK (Cynthia McDougall, Amanda E. Perry and David P.Farrington).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda e. Perry is a forensic psychologist working as a researchfellow for the Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychologyat the University of York. Amanda has worked in academia,healthcare and forensic settings. Her specialist areas of interestare: systematic review and evaluation of research methodology,screening and assessment for suicide and self-harm risk inoffenders, and mental-health services. She has published systematicreviews for the Cochrane and Campbell collaborations on drugtreatment for offenders and the effectiveness of screening andassessment tools for offenders, and is a gust lecturer for the MScin Applied Forensic Psychology course at the University of York.
Cynthia McDougall, OBE, is professor and director of the MSc inApplied Forensic Psychology at the University of York, andco-director of the University's Centre for Criminal JusticeEconomics and Psychology. She has wide practical and researchexperience in crime-related issues, having worked as a probationofficer in the community and as a psychologist in prisons, as headof psychology for prison and probation services. She is a charteredforensic psychologist, a consultant psychologist tot eh Durhamprobation area and a member of HM Prison Service Close SupervisionCentres Advisory Group.
David P. Farrington OBE, is professor pf Psychologicalcriminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University.He is also co-chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and JusticeGroup, a member of the board directors of the International Societyof Criminology, and joint editor of Cambridge Studies inCriminology and the Journal Criminology Behaviour and MentalHealth. his major research interests is in the longitudinal surveyof delinquency and crime, and he is director of the Cambridge Studyin Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey ofmore than 400 London males between the ages of 8 and 48. Inaddition to more than 360 published papers on criminological andpsychological topics, he has published 41 books, monographs andgovernment publications, one of which ( understanding ControllingCrime, 1986) won the prize for distinguished scholarship of theAmerican Sociological Association criminology section.