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Umfang: 1 online resource

Ausgabe: Course Book

ISBN: 9781400831265

Inhalt: 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 more people for lengthier terms is no longer a workable crime-control strategy. But, says Kleiman, there has been a revolution--largely unnoticed by the press--in controlling crime by means other than brute-force incarceration: substituting swiftness and certainty of punishment for randomized severity, concentrating enforcement resources rather than dispersing them, communicating specific threats of punishment to specific offenders, and enforcing probation and parole conditions to make community corrections a genuine alternative to incarceration. As Kleiman shows, "zero tolerance" is nonsense: there are always more offenses than there is punishment capacity. But, it is possible--and essential--to create focused zero tolerance, by clearly specifying the rules and then delivering the promised sanctions every time the rules are broken. Brute-force crime control has been a costly mistake, both socially and financially. Now that we know how to do better, it would be immoral not to put that knowledge to work.

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

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781400831265

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400831265

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400831265

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 231 pages)

Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.

ISBN: 0691142084 , 1282272586 , 1400831261 , 9780691142081 , 9781282272583 , 9781400831265

Inhalt: 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

Inhalt: The trap -- Thinking about crime control -- Hope -- Tipping, dynamic concentration, and the logic of deterrence -- Crime despite punishment -- Designing enforcement strategies -- Crime control without punishment -- Guns and gun control -- Drug policy for crime control -- What could go wrong? -- An agenda for crime control

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kleiman, Mark When brute force fails Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Book

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