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

When Brute Force Fails : : How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment / / Mark A. R. Kleiman.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kleiman, Mark A. R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2010
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 9 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
  • 1. The Trap
  • 2. Thinking about Crime Control
  • 3. Hope
  • 4. Tipping, Dynamic Concentration, and the Logic of Deterrence
  • 5. Crime Despite Punishment
  • 6. Designing Enforcement Strategies
  • 7. Crime Control without Punishment
  • 8. Guns and Gun Control
  • 9. Drug Policy for Crime Control
  • 10. What Could Go Wrong?
  • 11. An Agenda for Crime Control
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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