Abstract
This article considers the potential of preschool interventions to prevent crime. It highlights how certain kinds of preschool programs may help decrease crime later in life, and how prevention during early childhood can be viewed as reducing levels of early behavior problems and improving socialemotional development. It identifies some possible pathways of prevention, which includes child-and parent-based pathways. This is followed by a discussion of some interventions that target both child-and parent-based pathways. This article also considers some cross-cutting issues that are important across various intervention strategies in prevention science in preschool.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199940783 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780195398823 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 12 2012 |
Keywords
- Early behavior problems
- Intervention strategies
- Pathways of prevention
- Preschool interventions
- Preschool programs
- Prevention science
- Social-emotional development
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences