What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Systematic Reviews
David Weisburd (Ed.)
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Description for What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Systematic Reviews
Hardback. Editor(s): Weisburd, David; Farrington, David P.; Gill, Charlotte. Series: Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy. Num Pages: 467 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 6 colour illustrations, 30 black & white tables, 12 colou. BIC Classification: JKVC; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This ambitious volume brings together and assesses all major systematic reviews of the effectiveness of criminological interventions, to draw broad conclusions about what works in policing, corrections, developmental prevention, situational prevention, drug abuse treatments, sentencing and deterrence, and communities. Systematic reviews aim to minimize any possible bias in drawing conclusions by stating explicit criteria for inclusion and exclusion of studies, by conducting extensive and wide-ranging searches for possibly eligible studies, and by making all stages of the review explicit and transparent so that the methods can be checked and replicated. Over a decade ago, a concerted effort ... Read more
This ambitious volume brings together and assesses all major systematic reviews of the effectiveness of criminological interventions, to draw broad conclusions about what works in policing, corrections, developmental prevention, situational prevention, drug abuse treatments, sentencing and deterrence, and communities. Systematic reviews aim to minimize any possible bias in drawing conclusions by stating explicit criteria for inclusion and exclusion of studies, by conducting extensive and wide-ranging searches for possibly eligible studies, and by making all stages of the review explicit and transparent so that the methods can be checked and replicated. Over a decade ago, a concerted effort ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
331
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781493934751
SKU
V9781493934751
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About David Weisburd (Ed.)
David Weisburd is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and Executive Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. He is also the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Chief Science Adviser at the Police Foundation in Washington DC. Professor He is the 2010 recipient ... Read more
Reviews for What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Systematic Reviews
What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons From Systematic Reviews, a volume in the Springer series on evidence-based crime policy, is a timely collection of 12 compendious chapters written by leading scholar ... . Weisburd et al. is currently the best sourcebook of big data on correctional programs and would appeal to varied audiences, such as criminal ... Read more