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The Challenge of Crime - Rethinking Our Response (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R789
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The Challenge of Crime - Rethinking Our Response (Paperback, New Ed): Henry Ruth, Kevin R. Reitz

The Challenge of Crime - Rethinking Our Response (Paperback, New Ed)

Henry Ruth, Kevin R. Reitz

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The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a three-decade pattern of prison growth came to a full stop in the early 2000s, the current decade will be by far the most punitive in U.S. history, hitting some minority communities particularly hard.

The book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime. Concentrating on meaningful areas for change in policing, sentencing, guns, drugs, and juvenile crime, they discuss such topics as new priorities for the use of incarceration; aggressive policing; the war on drugs; the need to switch the gun control debate to a focus on crime gun regulation; a new focus on offenders' transition from confinement to freedom; and the role of private enterprise.

A book that rejects traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, "The Challenge of Crime" takes a major step in offering new approaches for the nation's responses to crime.

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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2006
First published: March 2006
Authors: Henry Ruth • Kevin R. Reitz
Dimensions: 227 x 146 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02106-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Causes & prevention of crime
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
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LSN: 0-674-02106-1
Barcode: 9780674021068

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