Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, 9th Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial cover

This book examines several types of crime prevention approaches and their goals, including those that are designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance, t

The quality of past evaluations in measuring the impact of crime prevention programs, and guidelines for improving future evaluations, are explored in this volu

Although billions of dollars have been spent on crime prevention and control programs during the past decade, scientifically strong impact evaluations of these

Realistic Evaluation shows how program evaluation needs to be, and can be bettered. It presents a profound yet highly readable critique of current evaluation pr