This Element examines an increasingly important community Crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence.
The approach builds on recent theorizing on optimizing deterrence, mobilizing informal social control, enhancing police legitimacy, and.
This strategy seeks to change offender behavior by understanding underlying crime-producing dynamics and conditions that sustain recurring Crime problems, and implementing a blended set of law enforcement, community mobilization, and social service actions.
This Element examines an increasingly important community Crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence