When Brute Force Fails (eBook)

How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

Mark A. R. Kleiman (Autor)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3126-5 (ISBN)

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Mark A. R. Kleiman is professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results and Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control.Mark A. R. Kleiman is professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results and Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control.

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Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults-a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities still bear the brunt of both crime and punishment. When Brute Force Fails explains how we got into the current trap and how we can get out of it: to cut both crime and the prison population in half within a decade.Mark Kleiman demonstrates that simply locking up more people for lengthier terms is no longer a workable crime-control strategy. But, says Kleiman, there has been a revolution-largely unnoticed by the press-in controlling crime by means other than brute-force incarceration: substituting swiftness and certainty of punishment for randomized severity, concentrating enforcement resources rather than dispersing them, communicating specific threats of punishment to specific offenders, and enforcing probation and parole conditions to make community corrections a genuine alternative to incarceration. As Kleiman shows, "e;zero tolerance"e; is nonsense: there are always more offenses than there is punishment capacity. But, it is possible-and essential-to create focused zero tolerance, by clearly specifying the rules and then delivering the promised sanctions every time the rules are broken.Brute-force crime control has been a costly mistake, both socially and financially. Now that we know how to do better, it would be immoral not to put that knowledge to work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 9 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adjudication • Adult • African Americans • alcohol abuse • Angela Hawken • arraignment • Arrest • attempt • Broken WIndows Theory • burglary • Calculation • Career • collective efficacy • compstat • Consideration • Cost–benefit analysis • cost-effectiveness analysis • Crime • Crime Control • crime prevention • crime statistics • Criminal Record • Criminology • culture war • Decision-Making • Deinstitutionalisation • Deterrence (legal) • disadvantage • Discretion • Diversion program • Domestic violence • Drug Court • Drug policy • Employment • fear of crime • felony • firearm • Gang • Grant (money) • Gun Control • Gun Control Act of 1968 • Gun show loophole • Habitual offender • handgun • Health Economics • hostility • Household • illegal drug trade • Imprisonment • Incapacitation (penology) • Informant • Institution • Law enforcement • Legalization • Legislation • Mass Incarceration • Mental disorder • misdemeanor • National Institute of Justice • Office of National Drug Control Policy • Oppression • parole • Performance Measurement • Police • Police Officer • Politics • positive feedback • Prevalence • Prison • prison cell • Probation • probation officer • prohibition of drugs • Prosecutor • Public Policy • punishment • Rational Choice Theory • Recidivism • result • Robbery • Root Cause • saving • Smith Richardson Foundation • social issue • Statistical discrimination (economics) • substance abuse • Theft • The Other Hand • Thomas C. Schelling • Thought • time served • Uncertainty • undercover operation • victimology • Violence • Violent crime • Weapon • welfare • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3126-1 / 1400831261
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3126-5 / 9781400831265