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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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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.