Preventing Crime

Tore Bjørgo is Professor of Police Science at the Norwegian Police University College and adjunct research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. A social anthropologist by training, he received his doctoral degree from Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main fields of research are crime prevention, political extremism and terrorism, youth gangs, disengagement from violent groups, and policing.

• Foreword; Lieven Pauwels 1. Introduction: A Comprehensive Model for Preventing Crime 2. Domestic Burglary 3. Violent Youth Gangs 4. Organised Crime Originating from Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs 5. Driving Under the Influence 6. Terrorism 7. The Way Forward: Some Concluding Comments on Application and Evaluation

"Preventing Crime is an ambitious book. The goal of the book is "to develop a general, comprehensive model for preventing crime". Though Tore Bjorgo is not the first to attempt such an undertaking, he is certainly among the most successful in such an endeavor. This book will prove to be required reading for those who study, formulate and apply crime prevention policy." - Scott H. Decker, PhD. Foundation Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, USA "[Tore Bjorgo's] ability to deduce a general framework for thinking about crime prevention, and to illustrate its applicability across different forms of criminality, adds significant value to the existing literature. [His] approach is at once theoretically grounded and analytically rigorous, while also having real-world implications in terms of thinking strategically about future efforts." - Peter Romaniuk, Associate Professor of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA