Featured Books

Science and Secrets of Ending Violent Crime is the result of a lifetime career working to get violence prevention science applied and frustration with too many preventable tragedies. Irvin Waller explains the proven solutions that tackle the causes of violence, and, ways to persuade politicians to buy-in to invest in the appropriate solutions. Investing in effective violence prevention is more affordable and successful than policymakers think; a modest equivalent of 10 percent of what they spend on police, courts, and corrections will do it and often before the next election! Violence prevention is achievable because voters, contrary to what the media tells us, want much more than reaction, they want prevention. read more / order

Smarter Crime Control shows how to cut rates of murder, violence against women, traffic fatalities, and drug overdoses by 50%. It is a guide for citizens to understand the potential for safer communities at less cost to taxpayers. It explains the latest science to politicians so that they can choose to avoid $300 billion in harm to victims, while saving taxpayers $100 billion a year in the United States. read more / order

• Gives priority to victims by ensuring services and rights meet national and international standards
• Uses understandable science to show the gap between the needs of victims of crime and services to assist them
• Highlights successes to show that governments can meet the needs of victims of crime and rebalance justice
• Builds on proposals from police chiefs to put victims at the zenith of law enforcement
• Demonstrates that offenders can provide restitution to victims of crime
• Illustrates that legal representation of victims is fundamental to rebalancing justice in criminal courts

This short book makes a compelling case to put victims of crime at the center of government policy. It shows why and how to prioritize victims. It enables its readers to use powerful arguments for reform. It provides victims of crime and their friends and families with practical recommendations for legislators. It protects taxpayers from misspending. read more / order

• Shows how prevention has stopped gang wars and prevented drug violence
• Confirms ways of stopping rape, youth violence and drunk driving
• Illustrates a new role for local government to diagnose and so solve the problems of crime
• Calls for implementation of the powerful prevention science that has reduced rates of violence by 50% or more
• Proposes how to protect tax-payers by shifting funds from wasteful use of prisons to smart prevention

The author, and the research, makes prevention science understandable and compelling. It uses success stories to show that preventing violence is affordable and feasible. It frames solutions to stopping crime in terms of how governments spend taxes on victims – prevention, enforcement and reaction. It has convinced governments to translate its proposals into French, Spanish, German and most recently Chinese. It has led to large scale national reforms and investments. read more / order