Crime Reduction and the Law

Informationen zum Autor Kate Moss, MIKE Stephens Klappentext This innovative and pioneering new book sets out to establish the links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely providing a detailed analysis of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction. Zusammenfassung This innovative and pioneering new book sets out to establish the links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely providing a detailed analysis of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Crime Prevention as Law: Rhetoric or Reality? 2. Law and the Management of Places 3. Local Authorities, Crime Reduction and the Law 4. No Through Road: Closing Pathways to Crime 5. Police Performance Targets, Repeat Victimization and Crime Reduction 6. The Law and Mental Disorder: An Uneasy Relationship 7. Paedophilia Prevention and the Law 8. Crime as Pollution: Proposal for Market-Based Incentives to Reduce Crime Externalities 9. Managing Offenders and Reducing Crime: Government Responses to Persistent Offenders and the Development of the National Offender Management Service 10. The Future of Crime Reduction

Product details

• Authors: Kate Stephens Moss
• Assisted by: Kate Moss (Editor), Moss Kate (Editor), Mike Stephens (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2005
• EAN: 9780415351430
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35143-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law