Books written by David Weisburd

What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Systematic Reviews

Decisively showing that the “nothing works” era is over, this volume takes stock of what we know, and still need to know, to prevent crime. I plan to keep this book close at hand and to use it often!
Handbook of Quantitative Criminology

This book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in the field that will provide overviews of the key issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike.
Putting Crime in its Place: Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology

This peer reviewed collection of essays aims to contribute to crime and place studies by making explicit the problems involved in choosing units of analysis in geographic criminology.
The Criminology of White-Collar Crime

The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar crime and criminology and criminal justice.
Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism

Chapter 13 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides insights on how recruitment patterns develop for two related types of criminal networks: organized crime and terrorism.
White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers

Weisburd and Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the white-collar criminal career.
Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order, and Community

Policing the Police: Problems and Perspectives. Journal of Police Science and Administration 3,No.2,June: 125–135. Dempsey, L.J. (1972). The Knapp Commission and You. The Police Chief 39, No. 11. Dempsey, L.J. (1973).
Statistics in Criminal Justice

The text takes a building-block approach, meaning that each chapter helps to prepare the student for the chapters that follow. It also means that the level of sophistication of the text increases as the text progresses.
Handbook of Quantitative Criminology

This book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in the field that will provide overviews of the key issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike.
Effects of Problem-Oriented Policing on Crime and Disorder

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.
To Protect and To Serve: Policing in an Age of Terrorism

Finally, the book also examines the impact of fighting terrorism on minority and majority communities, and the questions of legitimacy that are raised by new roles that police take on.
Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives

... third-party policing efforts are people involved in deviant behavior. In theory, the ultimate targets of third-party policing could include those persons engaged in any type of criminal behavior including domestic violence, white-collar ...
Quantitative Methods in Criminology

This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology.
Police Science: Toward a New Paradigm - Scholar's Choice Edition

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Crime Prevention Research Review No. 6: Focused Deterrence Strategies to Prevent Crime

While the results of this review are very supportive of deterrence principles, other complementary crime control mechanisms are at work in the focused deterrence strategies described in this publication that need to be highlighted and ...
The Future of Evidence-Based Policing

This book provides an overview of where evidence-based policing is today and how it is likely to develop.
Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention

The contributors in this book from criminologists, geographers and crime analysts, demonstrate the important role that crime maps have begun to play in crime prevention theory and applications.
White-Collar Crime Reconsidered

An exploration of the inner workings of the individuals, corporations, and government agencies implicated in the self-interested abuse of their economic and societal privilege.
Advanced Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book provides the student, researcher or practitioner with the tools to understand many of the most commonly used advanced statistical analysis tools in criminology and criminal justice, and also to apply them to research problems.
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

This 10-volume work provides a complete and systematic coverage of the field that is unprecedented. The Encyclopedia "defines the field" through its choice of organization and entries.