Edward Rubin

Minimizing Harm (eBook, ePUB)

A New Crime Policy For Modern America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429978548
• Artikelnr.: 56837810

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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