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Crime and public policy

Title

Crime and public policy / edited by James Q. Wilson & Joan Petersilia.

Format

Book

Edition

[New ed.].

Published

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Description

xi, 644 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors

Wilson, James Q. Petersilia, Joan.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Crime in international perspective / James P. Lynch and William Alex Pridemore
• Crime and biology / Terrie E. Moffitt, Stephen Ross, and Adrian Raine
• Juvenile crime and juvenile justice / Peter W. Greenwood and Susan Turner
• Families and crime / David P. Farrington
• Street gangs / Cheryl Maxson
• Labor markets and crime / Shawn D. Bushway
• The community / Robert J. Sampson
• Race and the administration of criminal justice in the United States / Randall Kennedy
• Gun control / Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga, and Mark H. Moore
• Rehabilitation and treatment programs / Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson
• Sex offenders and sex offender policy / Eric Beauregard and Roxanne Lieb
• Drugs, crime, and public policy / David A. Boyum, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Mark A. R. Kleiman
• General deterrence : a review of recent evidence / Robert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin
• Prosecution / Brian Forst
• Sentencing / Kevin R. Reitz
• Community corrections : probation, parole, and prisoner reentry / Joan Petersilia
• Prisons / Anne Morrison Piehl and Bert Useem
• Changing crime rates / Richard Rosenfeld
• Democratic policing on the evidence / Lawrence W. Sherman
• Crime and public policy / James Q. Wilson.

Subject headings

Crime prevention--United States. Crime--United States. Crime. Criminology.

ISBN

9780195399356 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195399358 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780195399363 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195399366 (cloth : alk. paper)