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  • Between Medicine and Criminology

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Making Public Places Safer

    Surveillance and Crime Prevention

    by 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 ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Saving Children from a Life of Crime

    Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

    by 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 ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime

    by Brandon Welsh ...
    What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often do the benefits from preventing crime or criminal behavior exceed the resources spent on preventing or controlling crime? Is it more cost-effective to invest in early childhood programs or juvenile boot camps to reduce criminal offending? These are ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $149.39 USD

  • Experimental Criminology

    Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policing

    Innovations in Bridging the Research-Practice Divide

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

    Edited by Doris Layton MacKenzie, Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington, Lawrence W. 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 ... Read more

    $104.99 USD