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Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

Current price: $350.00
Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control
Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

Barnes and Noble

Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

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This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015,
Punishment and Crime
evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence and incapacitation.
Brion Sever and Gary Kleck, author of the renowned
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
, present a literature review on legal punishment in the United States that is unparalleled in depth and scope. This text is a must-read for students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with the fields of corrections and crime prevention.

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