Minimizing Harm

A New Crime Policy For Modern America

AvEdward Rubin

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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This book represents an effort by a number of leading criminologists to articulate a pragmatic crime policy for America—a policy that combines academic insights about crime prevention with the realities of contemporary politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-05-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9780813368047

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Edward L. Rubin is professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Minimizing Harm as a Solution to the Crime Policy Conundrum -- Public Attitudes Toward Crime -- Comment: When and for Whom Is Violence a Crime Problem? -- Comment: Crime, Violence, and Public Mythology -- Prevention -- Comment: Early Intervention: Promising Path to Cost-Effective Crime Control, or Primrose Path to Wasteful Social Spending? -- Comment: Can We Afford to Prevent Violence? Can We Afford Not To? -- Alternative Sanctions -- Comment: Net Repairing: Rethinking Incarceration and Intermediate Sanctions -- Comment: Intermediate Punishments -- Drug Policy -- Comment: The Ambiguities of Harm Reduction in Crime and Drug Policy -- Comment: Breaking the Impasse in American Drug Policy