Crime Prevention in the 21st Century: Insightful Approaches for Crime Prevention Initiatives

Edited by Benoit LeClerc and Ernesto U. Savona

This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to guiding efforts in preventing crime. The collection is divided into seven sections that cover cutting edge approaches to crime prevention:

1) the offenders’ perspective on crime prevention. 2) crime script analysis. 3) crime mapping and spatial analysis. 4) social network analysis. 5) agent-based modelling. 6) crime-proofing legislations. 7) technologies of crime prevention

Each section includes one theoretical chapter to introduce the research approach followed by a series of empirical/applied contributions. The theoretical chapter aims to introduce and explain the approach of interest and discusses under which circumstances this strategy could best assist crime prevention. The objective of empirical/applied contributions is simply to showcase how these approaches can be applied.

Cham: Springer, 2017. 396p.