Evidence-Based Policing and Community Crime Prevention

Chapter 1. Introduction and background: Policing in Transition.- Chapter 2. Policing the Nighttime Economy.- Chapter 3: Supervising Sex Offenders on License.- Chapter 4: Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence.- Chapter 5: School-Based Interventions to Prevent Violence.- Chapter 6: Preventing Young People from Gang Involvement.- Chapter 7: Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults.- Chapter 8: Safeguarding People with Mental Health Problems.- Chapter 9: Public Awareness Campaigns.- Chapter 10: Victim and Witness Retraction and Disengagement.- Chapter 11: Victim Support.- Chapter 12: Future Directions in Research and Practice. 

James McGuire, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, where he was Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme from 1995 to 2013. Before that, he worked in learning disability services and for six-and-a-half years in a high security hospital. He has carried out psycho-legal assessments for the Youth and Crown Court and for hearings of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, Parole Board, and Criminal Cases Review Commission. He has conducted research in probation services, youth justice, prisons, and other settings on aspects of psychosocial rehabilitation with offenders; has written or edited 15 books and more than 170 other publications on this and related issues. He is a member of the Correctional Services Advisory and Accreditation Panel, National Offender Management Service (NOMS). He has been an invited speaker at many conferences in the United Kingdom and 21 other countries and has been involved in a rangeof consultative work or staff training with criminal justice and social welfare agencies in the United Kingdom and 12 other countries. As part of a consortium of universities and allied agencies from 2015 to 2017, he undertook a series of systematic evidence reviews for a major research project commissioned by the College of Policing.

Emily Evans, Ph.D., is a researcher with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of criminal justice and community safety. She has worked in research roles across the public, private, and academic sectors. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Institute for Global Innovation, the University's home for world-leading, multidisciplinary research to address the world's most pressing challenges. Her doctoral research was an evaluation of Integrated Offender Management, a multiagency approach to managing prolific offenders. The research was commissioned by local criminal justice agencies to help improve local