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How To Cut Both Crimes Rates and Costs
  • ISBN-13: 9780761985341
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Daniel Glaser
  • Price: AUD $233.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 22/07/1997
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 152.00mm) 320 pages Weight: 450g
  • Categories: Causes & prevention of crime [JKVC]USA [1KBB]
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The United States is now spending huge sums of money `getting tough on crime' to the detriment of education and other public service expenditures/programmes. From a cost as well as crime control perspective, this unique book asks whether value for money is being gained from these investments? It looks at existing research on the subject and suggests ways of cutting both crime rates and costs?
Daniel Glaser is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, specializing in criminology at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of a dozen books and about 200 articles and is past president of the American Society of Criminology, the Illinois Academy of Criminology, and California's Association for Criminal Justice Research.
Crime and Punishment at Century's End Punishment Options for Convicted Criminals The Objectives of Punishment Reducing Childhood Transition Crime Anticipating the Sequence in Vice Control Curbing Crimes of Rage Suppressing Sex Crimes Removing Crookedness from Legitimate Occupations Incapacitating Professional, 'Career' and Psychopathic Criminals Optimum Investments to Reduce Crime Rates
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