Situational Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (Crime Prevention Studies, Vol. 19)
Contributors: Richard Wortley (Editor); Stephen Smallbone (Editor)
Publisher: Criminal Justice Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781881798613
Subjects: Child abuse; Child welfare; Sexual abuse; Social Science; Sociology; Abuse - General; Criminology
First sentence: Situational crime prevention is a relatively new applied criminological moden that shifts the focus from supposed deficits of offenders to aspects of immediate environments that encourage or permit crime to occur.