"The results of their national study will surprise man legislative and youth service policy professionals. Agency characteristics, service delivery patterns, and youth clients can indeed reflect the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales, but in ways that have littl…
Securing compliance is the subject of this collection of interdisciplinary studies. Each attempts to provide a better understanding of why people comply with the law and what techniques may prove most effective in achieving that goal. Together the papers raise two important ques…
La violence et la peur font tellement partie de nos vies que, parfois, elles se confondent avec elles. Elles s'insinuent aussi bien dans le social que dans l'individuel et déterminent l'histoire de l'un et de l'autre. Le crime, quant à lui, semble d'être devenu un acte privilégi…
The 40% drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 largely remains an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling then is the crime rate drop in New York City, which lasted twice long and was twice as large. This 80% drop in crime over nineteen years represents the l…
"Using a series of case studies this multidisciplinary book highlights the experiences of academics and practitioners to provide a much needed position statement of current practice in the mapping and analysis of crime date in the UK. It covers experiences of crime mapping and s…
