Crime science : new approaches to preventing and detecting crime / edited by Melissa J. Smith and Nick Tilley.
This book provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials. It provides a major statement of the nature and aspirations of crime science, and presents a series of case studies providing examples, in different settings, of the approach in action, ranging from preventing crime wit...
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Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. :
Willan,
2005.
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| Series: | Crime science series (Willan Publishing)
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Table of Contents:
- Defining crime science / Gloria Laycock
- How to police the future: scanning for scientific and technological innovations which generate potential threats and opportunities in crime, policing and crime reduction / Paul Ekblom
- Cost-benefit analysis for crime science: making cost-benefit analysis useful through a portfolio of outcomes / Graham Farrell, Kate J. Bowers and Shane D. Johnson
- Reducing prison disorder through situational prevention: the Glen Parva experience / Richard Wortley and Lucia Summers
- Driving down crime at motoway service areas / Nick Tilley
- Vehicle excise duty evasion in the UK / Melissa J. Smith and Barry Webb
- Predicting the future or summarising the past? Crime mapping as anticipation / Shane D. Johnson, Kate J. Bowers and Ken Pease
- DNA fast-tracking / Barry Webb, Chloe Smith, Andrew Brock and Michael Townsley
- Cognition and detection: reluctant bedfellows? / Peter Stelfox and Ken Pease.