Nadine McKillop

What actually works in preventing crime?
Crime prevention has become one of the central challenges of modern criminal justice policy. Governments, police agencies, community organisations and security professionals all seek strategies that reduce offending while maintaining fairness, accountability and public trust.



Applied Crime Prevention provides a clear, practical guide to the major approaches used internationally to reduce crime. Drawing on decades of research and real-world case studies, the book shows how prevention strategies can be applied in policing, community safety, corrections and security settings.



The book integrates theory, evidence and practice across a wide range of prevention strategies, including policing, offender rehabilitation, community programs and environmental design. It highlights the importance of systematic planning, evaluation and partnership between stakeholders in achieving sustainable reductions in crime. [Book Synopsis]

What actually works in preventing crime?
Crime prevention has become one of the central challenges of modern criminal justice policy. Governments, police agencies, community organisations and security professionals all seek strategies that reduce offending while maintaining fairness, accountability and public trust.



Applied Crime Prevention provides a clear, practical guide to the major approaches used internationally to reduce crime. Drawing on decades of research and real-world case studies, the book shows how prevention strategies can be applied in policing, community safety, corrections and security settings.



The book integrates theory, evidence and practice across a wide range of prevention strategies, including policing, offender rehabilitation, community programs and environmental design. It highlights the importance of systematic planning, evaluation and partnership between stakeholders in achieving sustainable reductions in crime. [Book Synopsis]

What is crime? How much crime is there in our community? Why do people offend? How do we prevent crime? The text is written by leading Australian criminologists and aims to answer these questions. This book is for university students (particularly suited to first-year students) and others interested in crime to the fields of criminology and criminal justice. Each chapter is written by one or more of Australia's most widely respected authorities on criminology, lending this collection legitimacy and currency. The contributors to this volume guide readers through contemporary research on crime and criminality from Australia and overseas. The large majority of chapters do not simply summarise current knowledge but include data from the authors' original research, as well as offering distinctive insights and policy recommendations. The content in the text is a blend of Australian and international research, content and context. This text can be delivered via Revel, offering an interactive learning experience available on all devices. Revel is an additional cost and not included in the book's price. [Book Synopsis]

Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management is a reference text that provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect and fills a void in current literature. This work approaches the issue of child abuse from several viewpoints. First, child abuse is considered from both victimization and offending perspectives and, although empirical scholarship informs much of the content, there is applied material from international experts and practitioners in the field - from policing to child safety to intelligence. [Book Synopsis]

Six priorities were established for the Australian Institute of Criminology's research in 2018. These priorities cover a range of contemporary crime and justice concerns, including family and domestic violence, child exploitation material, Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, youth crime, serious and organised crime, and illicit drugs. This book is structured broadly around these six themes, and each paper provides an insight into the AIC's work on that topic. [Book Synopsis]

Crime prevention benefits everyone, including would-be criminals saved from the negative consequences of offending. Yet much of today's policy on preventing crime is driven by political ideology and anecdotal evidence, with insufficient planning and evaluation. Improving the practice of crime prevention is vital to ensure communities are safe and productive for all who live in them. However, crime is complex, the causes of crime are complex and, consequently, diverse methods are required to make the very large reductions in offending urgently needed around the world. This book contributes to improved practice in crime prevention, primarily through the lessons from successful projects. It provides an overview of current research in the field, and an exposition of some of the best case-studies from the past - including in the areas of property crime, fraud, violence and disorder - which demonstrate large-scale successes in prevention. The book is a must-read for security practitioners, crime prevention and community safety officers, police, research and policy officers, politicians, and students and academics in the field. Featuring an impressive list of contributors, Understanding Crime Prevention covers a wide spectrum of topics and approaches, designed to address crime problems from multiple angles. [Book Synopsis]

How can we seek justice and redress for the sexual abuse of children and better prevent the occurrence of such abuse? This work brings together the thoughts on this question advanced by leading scholars, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from around the world. These thinkers - some also professional practitioners - provide new perspectives on sanctioned and informal responses to abuse in religious, educational and total institutions, as well as to abuse carried out in non-institutional settings. The Sexual Abuse of Children will be a valuable resource for researchers, students and those who deal with related issues in professional contexts. [Book Synopsis]

This chapter examines evidence-informed approaches to preventing sexual violence and abuse (SVA). There has been no widely agreed theory or integrated prevention framework guiding SVA prevention efforts. The most widely implemented strategies have involved teaching children and young women to protect themselves from SVA (or to report it if it does occur), and to engage convicted sexual offenders in treatment and risk management programs. Effectiveness of protective behaviours programmes remains equivocal with respect to preventing actual SVA. High-quality offender treatment programs can reduce recidivism, but do not of course prevent the problem from occurring in the first place. Prevention efforts need to come to grips with the multifaceted nature of the problem. New strategies are needed that enable the most serious problems to be identified and prioritized, the dimensions, scope, and dynamics of these specific problems to be established, and prevention strategies designed to fit the problem at hand.

An Introduction to Crime & Criminology 4e, continues to bring together some of Australia's most widely respected authorities on criminology. The text explores popular knowledge and understanding about crime, contrasting it with what we know about crime from official sources as well as from crime victims. The authors present and analyse the various ways that crime is defined and measured, the many and varied dimensions of crime, the broad range of theories offered to explain crime as well as some of the main ways governments and other agencies respond to and attempt to prevent crime. [Book Synopsis]