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When Brute Force Fails : How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment /

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults--a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped fal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kleiman, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The trap
  • Thinking about crime control
  • Hope
  • Tipping, dynamic concentration, and the logic of deterrence
  • Crime despite punishment
  • Designing enforcement strategies
  • Crime control without punishment
  • Guns and gun control
  • Drug policy for crime control
  • What could go wrong?
  • An agenda for crime control.