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Deterrence and Crime Prevention - Reconsidering the prospect of sanction (Paperback)
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Deterrence and Crime Prevention - Reconsidering the prospect of sanction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics
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Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal
justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police
officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the
principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal
justice, the exercise of state authority, works - it is hoped -- to
diminish offending and enhance public safety. And however well we
think deterrence works, it clearly often does not work nearly as
well as we would like - and often at very great cost. Drawing on a
wide range of scholarly literatures and real-world experience,
Kennedy argues that we should reframe the ways in which we think
about and produce deterrence. He argues that many of the ways in
which we seek to deter crime in fact facilitate offending; that
simple steps such as providing clear information to offenders could
transform deterrence; that communities may be far more effective
than legal authorities in deterring crime; that apparently minor
sanctions can deter more effectively than draconian ones; that
groups, rather than individual offenders, should often be the focus
of deterrence; that existing legal tools can be used in unusual but
greatly more effective ways; that even serious offenders can be
reached through deliberate moral engagement; and that authorities,
communities, and offenders - no matter how divided - share and can
occupy hidden common ground. The result is a sophisticated but
ultimately common-sense and profoundly hopeful case that we can and
should use new deterrence strategies to address some of our most
important crime problems. Drawing on and expanding on the lessons
of groundbreaking real-world work like Boston's Operation Ceasefire
- credited with the "Boston Miracle" of the 1990s - "Deterrence and
Crime Prevention" is required reading for scholars, law enforcement
practitioners, and all with an interest in public safety and the
health of communities.
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