Controlling Crime
Strategies and Tradeoffs
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2011
636 pages
978-0-226-11513-9 (ISBN)
Description
Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished either with fewer resources or by investing those resources in areas other than the criminal justice system is all the more relevant.Controlling Crime considers alternative ways to reduce crime that do not sacrifice public safety. Among the topics considered here are criminal justice system reform, social policy, and government policies affecting alcohol abuse, drugs, and private crime prevention. Particular attention is paid to the respective roles of both the private sector and government agencies. Through a broad conceptual framework and a careful review of the relevant literature, this volume provides insight into the important trends and patterns of some of the interventions that may be effective in reducing crime.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Economical Crime Control - Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig
- I. Criminal Justice Reform
- 1. The Deterrent Effect of Imprisonment - Steven N. Durlauf and Daniel S. Nagin
- 2. Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines - Anne Morrison Piehl and Geoffrey Williams Comment: David Alan Sklansky
- 3. If Drug Treatment Works So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison? - Harold Pollack, Peter Reuter, and Eric Sevigny Comment: Jonathan P. Caulkins
- 4. Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes - Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire Comment: Jeffrey Swanson
- II. Regulation of Criminal Opportunities and Criminogenic Commodities
- 5. Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy - John J. Donohue III, Benjamin Ewing, and David Peloquin Comment: Robert J. MacCoun
- 6. Alcohol Regulation and Crime - Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin
- 7. The Role of Private Action in Controlling Crime - Philip J. Cook and John MacDonald
- III. Social Policy
- 8. Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior,and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other Than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature - Patrick L. Hill, Brent W. Roberts, Jeffrey T. Grogger, Jonathan Guryan, and Karen Sixkiller Comment: Kenneth A. Dodge
- 9. Family Income, Neighborhood Poverty,and Crime - Sara B. Heller, Brian A. Jacob, and Jens Ludwig Comment: Ilyana Kuziemko
- 10. Education Policy and Crime - Lance Lochner Comment: Justin McCrary
- 11. Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy - Steven Raphael Comment: Jeffrey Smith
- 12. Crime and the Family: Lessons from Teenage Childbearing - Seth G. Sanders Comment: Terrie E. Moffitt and Stephen A. Ross
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
