This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and how they are applied across a wide range of themes and infractions, from conventional to non-conventional forms of crime.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgment
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The Transformative Power of the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Crime Prevention Education for a New Culture of Lawfulness - SŁAWOMIR REDO
• Introduction
• Legislative Background
• Historical Background
• Current Climatological Research on Governance and Crime Prevention
• Two Strands for the SDGs-Related Crime Prevention Education
• People: Absolute Poverty, Property, Gender Equality, and Violence
• Prosperity: Relative Deprivation, Innovation and Crime Prevention
• Peace: Security, the Rule of Law and Justice
• Teaching Crime Prevention and Culture of Lawfulness across the World
• Conclusion
• Four Criminological Recommendations Follow from This Dramatic Account
• 2 Preventing Violence against Children: The UN Model Strategies - YVON DANDURAND
• Introduction
• Proactive Prevention of All Forms of Violence against Children: A State Obligation
• The United Nations Model Strategies
• Prohibiting Violence against Children
• Criminalizing Specific Forms of Violence against Children
• Prohibition of Harmful Practices
• Comprehensive and Context-Specific Prevention Programs
• Preventing Violence against Children in Vulnerable Situations
• The Risk of Violence against Children Committed by Children
• The Recruitment in Gangs and Extremist Groups
• Violence in Schools
• Preventing Child Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
• Prevention Planning
• Public Education and Awareness Raising
• Mobilizing the Media
• Challenging Harmful Practices
• Promoting Research and Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination
• Establishing Effective Detection and Reporting Mechanisms
• Offering Effective Protection to Child Victims of Violence
• Ensuring Effective Investigation and Prosecution of Incidents of Violence against Children
• Enhancing Cooperation among Various Sectors
• Improving Criminal Proceedings in Matters Involving Child Victims of Violence
• Ensuring That Sentencing Reflects the Serious Nature of Violence against Children
• Strengthening Capacity and Training of Criminal Justice Professionals
• Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children within the Justice System
• Conclusion
• 3 Crime Prevention and Transportation Systems - NEREA MARTEACHE AND GISELA BICHLER
• Introduction
• Disruptions in Transportation Systems Erode Public Trust
• Managing Crime in the System
• Chapter Organization
• Hot Routes, Risky Transportation Hubs
• Studying Concentration
• Concentration of Crime in Transportation Systems
• Targets Are on the Move
• Determining Where and When In-Transit Crimes Happen
• Crime Prevention on the Move
• Multiple Jurisdictions at Play
• Background Information on Maritime Transportation
• Super Controllers
• Approaching Crime Prevention in Transportation Systems
• 4 Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: Applications, Effectiveness, and International Innovations - JESSE CALE, MELANIE BURTON, AND BENOIT LECLERC
• Introduction
• Types of Sexual Violence Prevention
• Understanding the Basis for CSA
• Child-Focused Primary Prevention of CSA
• Family-Focused Primary Prevention of CSA
• Primary Prevention of CSA in Youth-Oriented Organizations
• Perpetrator-Focused Primary Prevention of CSA
• General Deterrence Strategies
• Developmental Prevention
• Innovations in Primary Prevention of CSA
• Conclusions and Future Issues Concerning Primary Prevention of CSA
• 5 Preventing Domestic Violence: An International Overview - MONICA PAULS, D. GAYE WARTHE, AND JOHN A. WINTERDYK
• Introduction
• Understanding Domestic Violence
• Interpretation
• Definition
• Measurement
• Prevalence
• Explaining Domestic Violence
• International Research and Responses to Domestic Violence
• Prevention
• Conclusion
• 6 Preventing Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: Ending Demand - JACKIE JONES
• Introduction
• Human Trafficking Defined: Regional and Domestic Variations
• Lack of Convictions as a Prevention/Deterrent Strategy
• The Link between Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution
• International Law State Prevention Obligations
• An Example: Article 4 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Positive Obligations
• Preventing Trafficking in the Sex Industry: The “Swedish”/“Nordic” Model
• Sweden as a Good Practice Example
• Conclusion
• 7 Community Crime Prevention and Punishment - HELMUT KURY
• Introduction
• Punishment and Crime Prevention—The Historical Development
• Is Punishment (Imprisonment) a Good Way to Prevent Crime?
• Community and Crime Prevention
• Is Community Crime Prevention Effective?
• Conclusion and Discussion
• 8 Social Crime Prevention: Concepts, Developments, and Challenges - MATJAž AMBROž GORAZD MEšKO BENJAMIN FLANDER
• Introduction
• Defining and Conceptualizing SCP
• The Historical Context: A Brief Sketch of the Key Post-War Developments in SCP
• The Social Root Causes of Crime and SCP
• Measures of SCP
• Problems and Evaluation
• Summary
• 9 Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention: Constructive Alternative or Soft Option? - RICHARD GRIMES AND SCOTT WALSH
• Introduction
• What Is RJ and Why Use It?
• A Case Study
• The Issues Arising and Some Questions for Discussion
• RJ as Education
• Conclusion
• 10 Prevention of Femicide - MICHAEL PLATZER
• Introduction
• Honor-Related Killings
• Dowry-Related Deaths
• Burning of Widows
• Killings of Women Attributed to Accusations of Sorcery/Witchcraft
• Killings of Aboriginal and Indigenous Women
• Extreme Forms of Violent Killings of Women
• Killings in the Context of Armed Conflict
• Killings as a Result of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Female Infanticide and Abortions
• The Challenge
• Embedded Social Attitudes
• What Is to Be Done?
• What Can Be Done to Prevent Extreme Violence against Girls?
• Capacity Building through Partnership Building
• Security Council Resolution
• Child Sexual Abuse by UN Peacekeepers
• Conclusion
• 11 Terrorism Crime Prevention Policies in Liberal Democracies: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Options - RAYMOND R. CORRADO, IRWIN M. COHEN, AND GARTH DAVIES
• Introduction
• Intelligence-Focused Terrorism Crime Prevention Policies and the Emergence of Secular Ideologies
• The British Model for the Prevention of Terrorism: An Evolving Historical Perspective
• Anti-Jihadist Terrorism Policies
• Interagency Intelligence Integration
• Foreign Intelligence and Disruptive Programs
• The Jihadist Radicalization Challenge and Prevention
• Conclusion
• 12 The Criminalization of Poverty - JOHN ROOK AND SAMANTHA SEXSMITH
• Introduction
• The Criminalization of Poverty
• Canada—A Case in Point
• The United States of America—A Case in Point
• Europe—A Case in Point
• Those with Lower Incomes Are More Likely to Be Arrested
• Homelessness and Prison
• Pay-to-Stay Fees
• Crimes of Survival
• Property Crimes
• Drug Crimes
• Sex Work
• Women and Crime
• Indigenous Peoples and Crime
• Alternatives to Criminalizing Poverty: Preventive Methods
• Early Intervention Strategies
• Community and Drug Courts
• Concluding Thoughts
• 13 Preventing Corporate Crime - MIKE B. BEKE
• Introduction
• Concept of Corporate Crime
• Causes of Corporate Crime
• Deterrence and Compliance
• Reducing Corporate Crime Risks
• Effects of Interventions
• The Future of Preventing Corporate Crime
• 14 Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) - J. BRYAN KINNEY, ELLIOTT MANN, AND JOHN A. WINTERDYK
• Introduction
• Defensible Space and the Concept of CPTED
• First-Generation CPTED
• Territoriality
• Image Management
• Legitimate Activity Support
• Target Hardening
• Access Control
• Surveillance
• Geographical Juxtaposition
• Second-Generation CPTED
• Social Cohesion
• Community Connectivity
• Community Culture
• Threshold Capacity
• CPTED on an International Scale
• City Revitalization in South Korea
• CPTED in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Police Label Secure Housing in the Netherlands
• Crime Prevention through Urban Design and Planning (CP-UDP)
• Managing Expectations
• Measuring and Evaluating CPTED Impacts
• Crime Displacement
• Future Directions and Considerations for Taking CPTED Seriously
• 15 Crime Prevention and the Victims—Lessons Learned from Victimology - RITA HAVERKAMP AND MICHAEL KILCHLING
• Introduction
• Victimization
• The “Ideal Victim”
• Victimization Surveys
• Victims’ Expectations and Criminal Justice
• Victim–Offender Overlap
• Theoretical Approaches
• Research Findings
• Implications for Crime Prevention
• Summary and Implications
• 16 The Politics of Crime Prevention - MARGARET SHAW
• Introduction
• How Political Are National Crime Prevention Policies?
• How Political Is the Role of Local Government in Crime Prevention?
• Balancing the Role of Governments and the Private Sector in Crime Prevention—Social Financing
• The Future of Prevention—Recognition on Multiple Fronts
• 17 Smarter Crime Control: Putting Prevention Knowledge into Practice - IRVIN WALLER AND VERONICA MARTINEZ SOLARES
• Introduction
• The Challenge of Interpersonal Crime and Violence
• Interpersonal Violence and Crime Is Too Frequent, Damaging, and Costly
• Using only Repression Based on More Policing and Incarceration Is Ineffective and Costly in Tax and Human Terms
• Accumulation of Significant Evidence That Prevention Is the Effective Solution to Violence
• What Are the Risk Factors for Violence?
• What Prevents Violence by Tackling the Risk Factors
• Benefits Include Less Harm to Victims, Better Human Development, and Less Need for Repressive Solutions
• Growing Consensus on Importance of Governance Strategies That Are Multisectoral
• Government Multisectoral Strategies
• Local Comprehensive Community Safety Strategies
• UN Habitat—Safer Cities Application of CCSSs
• Essential Supports for the Paradigm Shift to Effective Prevention
• Effective Prevention Needs Funding
• Effective Prevention Needs Qualified Personnel to Apply It
• Need to Advance Research and Development
• International Development Research Centre
• Measuring Outcomes Focuses Multisector Strategies on Results
• Getting Political Action for the Essential Supports
• Public Opinion and Victims Support Social Investment in Prevention
• Critical Events Can Shift Policy to Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies
• Intergovernmental Agencies Provide Collective Commitment for Action
• Communities of Practice Provide Momentum for Action
• International Centre for the Prevention of Crime
• European Forum for Urban Safety
• African Forum for Urban Safety
• Developing Networks in North America
• Latin America Region
• Conclusion
• 18 Safeguarding Sustainable Crime Prevention: The Rocky Case of the Netherlands - JAN VAN DIJK, PAUL VAN SOOMEREN, AND JAAP DE WAARD
• Introduction
• Police-Based Crime Prevention as a First Response to the Boom in Crime: 1970–1985
• Administrative Crime Prevention: Engaging Other Ministries and Local Authorities (1985–1995)
• Coalitions of the Willing: 1995–2015
• The State of the Art in 2016
• Analysis and Lessons Learned
• Conclusion: The Future of Crime Prevention
• 19 The Value of Crime Prevention: Avoiding the Direct, Indirect, and Societal Costs of Crime - ANNE MILLER
• Introduction
• Why Study the Cost of Crime?
• What Is the Cost of Crime?
• Types of Costs
• Techniques for Valuing Tangible and Intangible Costs of Crime
• The Value of Crime Prevention Compared to the Cost of Crime
• Summary and Conclusion