When brute force fails : how to have less crime and less punishment /

When brute force fails : how to have less crime and less punishment /

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Author / Creator:	Kleiman, Mark.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 231 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Crime -- United States. Crime prevention -- United States. Punishment -- United States. Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States. Crime. Crime prevention. Criminal justice, Administration of. Punishment. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282363

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ISBN:	1400831261 9781400831265 0691142084 9780691142081 1282272586 9781282272583 9780691148649 0691148643
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 falling, and poor people and minorities still bear the brunt of both crime and punishment. When Brute Force Fails explains how we got into the current trap and how we can get out of it: to cut both crime and the prison population in half within a decade. Mark Kleiman demonstrates that simply locking up.
Other form:	Print version: Kleiman, Mark. When brute force fails. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009
Standard no.:	9786612272585 3311941 40017127587

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction e How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Chapter 1. The Trap
Chapter 2. Thinking about Crime Control
Chapter 3. Hope
Chapter 4. Tipping, Dynamic Concentration, and the Logic of Deterrence
Chapter 5. Crime Despite Punishment
Chapter 6. Designing Enforcement Strategies
Chapter 7. Crime Control without Punishment
Chapter 8. Guns and Gun Control
Chapter 9. Drug Policy for Crime Control
Chapter 10. What Could Go Wrong?
Chapter 11. An Agenda for Crime Control
Notes
Bibliography
Index