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Defense and Security Studies

Georgia State University

2016

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Labeling Terrorism, Valentina Garzon Apr 2016

Labeling Terrorism, Valentina Garzon

Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

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Learning From The Offenders' Perspective On Crime Prevention, Scott Jacques, Elizabeth Bonomo Jan 2016

Learning From The Offenders' Perspective On Crime Prevention, Scott Jacques, Elizabeth Bonomo

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Criminals have a firsthand perspective on why and how to commit crime. In this chapter, we outline and illustrate five ways that offender-based research can be used to inform understanding of crime prevention, more specifically situational crime prevention: namely, (1) by directly determining what works to reduce crime; (2) generating findings that are suggestive of what prevention measures to invent and employ; (3) refining understanding of why a given prevention method reduces crime; (4) figuring out how offenders get around particular prevention measures; and, (5) gathering information on not only the positive but also the unintended, negative outcomes of prevention …

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