Reducing Crime

Reducing Crime: The Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Interventions

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-11

  Mcdougall, Cynthia ^a   Perry, Amanda E ^a   Farrington, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Criminal justice interventions; Influential publications; Policy development; Research evidence; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649320228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713532.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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