Crime and public policy /

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Edition:[New ed.].
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Description:xi, 644 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8292502
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Other authors / contributors:Wilson, James Q.
Petersilia, Joan.
ISBN:9780195399356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195399358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195399363 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195399366 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Crime in international perspective / James P. Lynch and William Alex Pridemore
  • Crime and biology / Terrie E. Moffitt, Stephen Ross, and Adrian Raine
  • Juvenile crime and juvenile justice / Peter W. Greenwood and Susan Turner
  • Families and crime / David P. Farrington
  • Street gangs / Cheryl Maxson
  • Labor markets and crime / Shawn D. Bushway
  • The community / Robert J. Sampson
  • Race and the administration of criminal justice in the United States / Randall Kennedy
  • Gun control / Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga, and Mark H. Moore
  • Rehabilitation and treatment programs / Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson
  • Sex offenders and sex offender policy / Eric Beauregard and Roxanne Lieb
  • Drugs, crime, and public policy / David A. Boyum, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Mark A. R. Kleiman
  • General deterrence : a review of recent evidence / Robert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin
  • Prosecution / Brian Forst
  • Sentencing / Kevin R. Reitz
  • Community corrections : probation, parole, and prisoner reentry / Joan Petersilia
  • Prisons / Anne Morrison Piehl and Bert Useem
  • Changing crime rates / Richard Rosenfeld
  • Democratic policing on the evidence / Lawrence W. Sherman
  • Crime and public policy / James Q. Wilson.