Preventing crime
Subtitle: what works, what doesn't, what's promising : a report to the United States Congress
By: prepared for the National Institute of Justice by Lawrence W. Sherman ... [et al.] in collaboration with members of the graduate program, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland.
Contributors: Sherman, Lawrence W.; National Institute of Justice (U.S.); University of Maryland at College Park. Dept. of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Series: Research report; Research report (National Institute of Justice (U.S.))
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Subjects: Crime prevention -- Research -- United States.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Research -- United States.; Federal aid to law enforcement agencies -- Research -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Supported by ... grant number 96-MU-MU-0019 to the University of Maryland at College Park."
Shipping list no.: 97-0286-P.
"February 1997."
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the congressional mandate to evaluate ; Thinking about crime prevention ; Communities and crime prevention ; Family-based crime prevention / Lawrence W. Sherman; title: School-based crime prevention / Denise C. Gottfredson; title: Labor markets and crime risk factors / Shawn Bushway and Peter Reuter; title: Preventing crime at places / John Eck; title: Policing for crime prevention / Lawrence W. Sherman; title: Criminal justice and crime prevention / Doris Layton MacKenzie; title: Conclusions : the effectiveness of local crime prevention funding / Lawrence W. Sherman.