Amanda Perry & Cynthia McDougall 
Reducing Crime 
The Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Interventions

Based on extensive research initiated by the UK Home Office, Reducing Crime offers an objective look at the effectiveness of criminal justice interventions in the reduction of crime. Bringing together information about where, for whom and at what cost these interventions are effective, the book examines alcohol prevention and drug treatment studies; courts, sentencing and police interventions; probation and prison interventions; and situational burglary and housing interventions. In addition to a cost/benefits analysis of each intervention, the book also discusses future research and policy directions.

Table of Content

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Series Preface.

Foreword.

Acknowledgements.

1. Reducing Crime (Cynthia Mc Dougall, Amanda E. Perry and David
P. Farrington).

2. Methodology of the UK Review of Evidence (Amanda E.
Perry).

3. Alcohol and Drug Treatments (Mary Mc Murran).

4. Diversion from Prosecution at Court and Effective Sentencing
(Carol Hedderman and Mike Hough).

5. Probation and Prison Interventions (Caroline Friendship and
Mia Debidin).

6. CCTV and Street Lighting: Comparative Effects on Crime
(Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington).

7. Situational Burglary and Housing Interventions (Trevor
Bennett).

8. Economic Methodology and Evaluations: The Costs and Benefits
of Criminal Justice Interventions (Raymond Swaray).

9. Overview of Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Interventions
in the UK (Cynthia Mc Dougall, Amanda E. Perry and David P.
Farrington).

Index.

About the author

Amanda e. Perry is a forensic psychologist working as a research
fellow for the Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology
at the University of York. Amanda has worked in academia,
healthcare and forensic settings. Her specialist areas of interest
are: systematic review and evaluation of research methodology,
screening and assessment for suicide and self-harm risk in
offenders, and mental-health services. She has published systematic
reviews for the Cochrane and Campbell collaborations on drug
treatment for offenders and the effectiveness of screening and
assessment tools for offenders, and is a gust lecturer for the MSc
in Applied Forensic Psychology course at the University of York.

Cynthia Mc Dougall, OBE, is professor and director of the MSc in
Applied Forensic Psychology at the University of York, and
co-director of the University’s Centre for Criminal Justice
Economics and Psychology. She has wide practical and research
experience in crime-related issues, having worked as a probation
officer in the community and as a psychologist in prisons, as head
of psychology for prison and probation services. She is a chartered
forensic psychologist, a consultant psychologist tot eh Durham
probation area and a member of HM Prison Service Close Supervision
Centres Advisory Group.

David P. Farrington OBE, is professor pf Psychological
criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University.
He is also co-chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice
Group, a member of the board directors of the International Society
of Criminology, and joint editor of Cambridge Studies in
Criminology and the Journal Criminology Behaviour and Mental
Health. his major research interests is in the longitudinal survey
of delinquency and crime, and he is director of the Cambridge Study
in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of
more than 400 London males between the ages of 8 and 48. In
addition to more than 360 published papers on criminological and
psychological topics, he has published 41 books, monographs and
government publications, one of which ( understanding Controlling
Crime, 1986) won the prize for distinguished scholarship of the
American Sociological Association criminology section.