Punishment and crime : the limits of punitive crime control /
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| Author / Creator: | Kleck, Gary, 1951- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. ©2018 |
| Description: | xiii, 333 pages : illustrations; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11372728 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- The Scope of This Book
- The Historical Context: Recent American Trends in Punishment
- Trends in Public Opinion on Crime and Its Punishment
- American Punishment Levels Compared to Other Nations
- A Word About Meta-Analysis
- 2. Theory: The Mechanisms by Which Legal Punishment Might Reduce Crime
- Theoretically Plausible Mechanisms by Which Legal Punishment Could Affect Crime
- The Conditions Under Which Punishment Is Most Likely to Reduce Criminal Behavior
- Nonlinearity of the Effects of Punishment-Threshold and Diminishing Returns Patterns
- The Communication of the Risk of Legal Punishment to Prospective Offenders
- 3. Deterrence and the Rational Choice Model of Criminal Behavior: The Case of the Disappearing Theory
- The Rational Choice Model
- The Significance of Limits on Information
- Weak or Invalid Criticisms of the RCM as Applied to the Deterrence Doctrine
- Arguably Valid Criticisms of the Model
- Stronger Criticisms of the Model
- What Kinds of Human Behaviors Do Accord With the Rational Choice Model?
- The Disappearing Theory
- Is Street Crime "Rational" in the Sense of Yielding More Benefit Than Cost?
- The Predictive Ability of the Rational Choice Model of Criminal Behavior
- Conclusions
- 4. General Methodological Problems in Punishment Research
- Common Methodological Problems of Macro-Level Studies
- Common Methodological Problems of Individual-Level Studies
- The Evolution of Research Methods on Deterrence
- 5. Individual-Level Research on General Deterrence: The Impact of Perceptions of Legal Risk on Criminal Behavior
- Review Methods
- Part 1: Perceptual Deterrence Research
- Factors That May Condition the Findings of Perceptual Deterrence Research
- Perceptual Deterrence Findings and Methodological Artifacts
- Part II: The Experiential Effect-The Impact of Criminal Behavior on Perceptions of Legal Risk
- Chapter 5 Summary
- 6. Individual-level Research on the Effects of Punishment on Those Punished
- Part I: The Impact of Experienced Punishment on Criminal Behavior
- Part II: The Impact of Experienced Punishment on Perceptions of Future Punishment Risk
- Chapter 6 Summary
- 7. Macro-Level Research on the Effect of Punishment Levels
- Overall Macro-Level Findings
- Macro-Level Findings by Decade of Publication
- Macro-Level Findings by Location
- Variations in Macro-Level Findings Based on Methodological Variations
- Summary of Review of Macro-Level Research
- Conclusions
- 8. The Impact of Capital Punishment on Murder Rates
- The Issues
- Findings on the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
- Findings by Execution Risk Measures Used
- Publication Discipline and Capital Punishment Deterrence Findings
- Death Penalty Deterrence Findings by Unit of Analysis and Region
- Research Design
- The Effects of Publicity About Executions
- The Use of Inappropriately Large Units of Analysis
- Public Intolerance for Violence as a Confounding Variable
- The Grogger Study of Daily Homicide Counts in California
- The Hong-Kleck National Study of Daily Homicide Counts
- Conclusions
- 9. Do Actual Levels of Punishment Affect Perceptions of Legal Risk?
- Deterrence and Perceptions of Punishment
- Perception-Reality Correspondence and Theories of Criminal Behavior
- The Relevance of These Issues to Prior Research on Crime and Deterrence
- The Kleck, Sever, Li, and Gertz Study
- The Reaction to Time Findings by Deterrence Doctrine Advocates
- Do Highly Publicized Punishment Events Increase Deterrent Effects?
- Do Policy "Experiments" Establish the Operation of Deterrence?
- Is There a "Collective Wisdom" About Legal Risks?
- Reinterpretation of Macro-Level Research in Light of the Absence of Any Macro-Level Association Between Perceptions of Punishment Risk and Actual Risk Levels
- Conclusions
- Appendix 9.1
- 10. The Incapacitative Effects of Imprisonment
- Simulation Studies
- A Cross-Individual Alternative to Simulation Studies
- Can an Effective Selective Incapacitation Sentencing Policy Be Implemented?
- Macro-Level Studies of the Impact of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates
- Are There Cross-State Displacement and Free Rider Effects?
- The Omitted Variables Problem-Failing to Control for Public Intolerance, for Crime
- Empirical Studies of the Impact of the Size of the Prison Population on Crime Rates
- Variation in the Effects of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates
- Problems in Quantifying the Crime Prevention Benefits of Incarceration
- Diminishing Returns: Have We Passed the Point Where Further Incarceration Is No Longer Cost-Effective?
- Conclusions
- 11. Crime-Increasing Effects of Punishment
- Some Possible Crime-Increasing Effects of Punishment on the Person Punished
- Empirical Evidence on Crime-Increasing Effects of Legal Punishment on Those Punished
- Crime-Increasing Effects of Punishment on the Families of Punished Persons
- Effects of Mass Incarceration on the Communities of the Punished
- Diversion of Resources From Other Crime-Reducing Efforts
- Conclusions
- 12. Conclusions
- Premature Good News
- Why Did Scholars Reach This Conclusion?
- Salvaging the Deterrence Doctrine as a Guide to Crime Control Policy
- Should Scholars Even Draw Policy Conclusions From Research?
- Summary of the Book's Findings
- A Compact Summary of Some Lessons That Crime and Punishment Research Has to Teach Us
- What Can Be Done? How Might Excessive Reliance on Legal Punishment Be Reduced?
- Effective Crime Reduction Alternatives to Punishment
- Do Americans Support Nonpunitive Alternatives?
- Index
