Across the globe, challenging and contentious issues about
community safety and security increasingly exercise governments and
police forces as well as, for example, town planners and car-park
designers. Consequently, as a specialist area within the wider
discipline of criminology, crime reduction has never before enjoyed
such prominence in public and scholarly discourse. With research on
and around the subject flourishing as never before, this new title
in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in
Criminology, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to
make sense of the subdiscipline s colossal literature and the
continuing explosion in research output and practice. Edited by
Kate Moss, a prominent academic in the field, Crime Reduction is a
four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge
scholarship.
The first volume in the collection ( Approaches to Reduction )
brings together the best research on the different approaches to
crime reduction, including its classification and theory, and ideas
of what is preventable. The work gathered here also includes
criticisms of crime reduction, not least research around the
phenomena of displacement and sustainability.
Volume II ( Motivation of the Criminal Inclination ) collects
the most important work on issues of crime reduction, particularly
those concerned with what one thinker has described as structure
and psyche . The scholarship in this volume draws both on the
structural perspective (which emphasizes the view that reduction is
achievable only through economic and social change, especially by
ameliorating inequality or levels of social exclusion), and the
psyche approach (which regards crime principally as a product of
the human spirit and seeks to change criminal inclination and
activity by policies of, for example, deterrence, incapacitation,
and reform).
The notion of situational crime reduction has been a
particularly active area of research in recent years. But the idea
that changes to the social and physical settings in which crime may
occur can reduce its frequency or impact is far from
uncontroversial. Volume III ( Situational Crime Reduction )
assembles the best thinking in this area tackling, for example,
ethical dilemmas about the impact of some reduction strategies on
our freedom and privacy rights, as well as the difficult and
profound implications that arise from the increasing extent to
which crime reduction has become the de facto responsibility of
private rather than state organizations.
The final volume in the collection ( Crime Prevention in Action
) gathers together the best cutting-edge work to highlight key
examples of empirical crime reduction research in action. It
includes research focusing on: the need to incentivize crime
reduction to persuade more people to take responsibility for
reducing a greater variety of crime; the effects of apparently
subtle strategies (such as changes to street lighting); and
anticipatory changes (whereby crime seems to reduce in advance of
reduction initiatives). Volume IV also includes assessments of the
future developments in the field.
Crime Reduction is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive
introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the
collected material in its historical and intellectual context. An
essential reference collection, it is destined to be valued by
scholars, students, and practitioners as a vital one-stop research
and pedagogic resource.
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