Minimizing Harm
A New Crime Policy For Modern America
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
222 pages
978-0-8133-6804-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-6804-7 (9780813368047)
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Person
Edward L. Rubin is professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.
Content
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