TY - GEN AU - Winterdyk, John (Ed.) AU - Winterdyk, John. TI - Crime prevention : : international perspectives, issues, and trends SN - 9781498733670 PY - 2017/// CY - Boca Ratom, FL PB - CRC Press KW - Crime prevention N1 - Includes index; Introduction -- The Transformative Power of the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Crime Prevention Education for a New Culture of Lawfulness -- Preventing Violence against Children: The UN Model Strategies -- Crime Prevention and Transportation Systems -- Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: Applications, Effectiveness, and International Innovations -- Preventing Domestic Violence: An International Overview -- Preventing Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: Ending Demand -- Community Crime Prevention and Punishment -- Social Crime Prevention: Concepts, Development, and Challenges -- Restorative Justice and Crime Prevention: Constructive Alternative or Soft Option? -- Prevention of Fecimide -- Terrorism Crime Prevention Policies in Liberal Democracies: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Options -- The Criminalization of Poverty -- Preventing Corporate Crime -- Crime Prevention through Environment Design (CPTED) -- Crime Prevention and the Victims - Lessons Learned from Victimology -- The Politics of Crime Prevention -- Smarter Crime Control: Putting Prevention Knowledge into Practice -- Safeguarding Sustainable Crime Prevention: The Rocky Case of the Netherlands -- The Value of Crime Prevention: Avoiding the Direct, Indirect, and Societal Costs of Crime N2 - This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and how they are applied across a wide range of themes and infractions, from conventional to non-conventional forms of crime. Based on a review of the literature, this is the first text to offer a broad, yet comprehensive, examination of how and why crime prevention has gained considerable traction as an alternative to conventional criminal justice practices of crime control in developed countries, and to provide a cross-sectional view of how crime prevention has been applied and how effective such initiatives have been ER -