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Prevention of Crime and Delinquency

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Handbook of Prevention

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Prevention of crime is an ancient objective. In the first century A.D., Seneca exhorted his fellow Greeks, “He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it,” and Cicero added, “Every evil in the bud is easily crushed.” Since Seneca and Cicero, the cloak of prevention has been wrapped around a large body of interventions, lending to these interventions an air of au courant fashionableness and providing them insulation against the stormy blasts of critics who decry their ineffectiveness, expense, or unfairness.

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Nietzel, M.T., Himelein, M.J. (1986). Prevention of Crime and Delinquency. In: Edelstein, B.A., Michelson, L. (eds) Handbook of Prevention. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5044-6_9

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