Yale sociologist Albert J. Reiss, Jr., concludes that efforts to pre-vent crime eventually may prove as valuable as police work, pros- ecutions, and prisons.
Gun control is one often-de- bated crime-preventionmeasure. Research has not shown any link between the availability of guns and the number of violent inci- dents or injuries, the panel says. But since ps tend to be more lethal thaiother weapons, keep- ing them out of the hands of unsupervised juveniles and out of homes with histories of family...