PREVENTING CRIME:
WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T, WHAT'S PROMISING¹

A REPORT TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS

Prepared for the National Institute of Justice
by Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise Gottfredson, Doris MacKenzie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn Bushway

in collaboration with members of the Graduate Program

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Maryland

Scientific Advisers

Partial List of Collaborating Graduate Students

1This report was supported by National Institute of Justice Grant Number 96MUMU0019 to the University of Maryland at College Park. Points of view or opinions stated herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the United States Department of Justice.

table of Contents

Overview

1. Introduction: The Congressional Mandate to Evaluate
Lawrence W. Sherman

2. Thinking About Crime Prevention
Lawrence W. Sherman

3. Communities and Crime Prevention
Lawrence W. Sherman

4. Family-Based Crime Prevention
Lawrence W. Sherman

5. School-Based Crime Prevention
Denise Gottfredson

6. Labor Markets and Crime Risk Factors
Shawn Bushway and Peter Reuter

7. Preventing Crime at Places
John Eck

8. Policing for Crime Prevention
Lawrence W. Sherman

9. Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention
Doris L. MacKenzie

10. Conclusions: The Effectiveness of Local Crime Prevention Funding
Lawrence W. Sherman

Appendix: Methodology for this Report
Lawrence W. Sherman and Denise Gottfredson

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