When Brute Force Fails

When Brute Force Fails
Author: Mark Kleiman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0691142084


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One in every one hundred adult Americans is imprisoned. With 2.3 million prison inmates on its hands, the author argues it is time the United States stopped focusing on punishment and turned its attention instead to reducing crime.


When Brute Force Fails
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Mark A. R. Kleiman
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-17 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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 unp
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When Brute Force Fails
Language: en
Pages: 173
Authors: Mark Kleiman
Categories: Crime
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This study proposes a cost-effective crime-control strategy. Assuming that potential offenders base their actions on an evaluation of the costs and benefits of
Charged
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Emily Bazelon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass i
Creating Born Criminals
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Nicole Hahn Rafter
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past. It is an exploration of the role of biological explanation as a form of discourse and of its i