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Reducing Offending: An Assessment of Research Evidence on Ways of Dealing with Offending Behavior

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Reducing Offending: An Assessment of Research Evidence on Ways of Dealing with Offending Behavior

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Great Britain. Home Office. Research and Statistics Directorate (London, England)

Published 1998. 144 pages.

Through a series of nine articles, the authors present an assessment of the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different methods of reducing crime. Topics are: promoting a less criminal society; situational crime prevention; changing the context of crime prevention; community crime prevention; effective policing strategies; sentencing policy; effective interventions; and a conclusion which summarizes the evidence presented in the previous sections. An extensive list of references follows each chapter as well as a list of research publications. Accession Number: 014969

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