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1	Punishment & Democracy: Three Strikes & You're Out in California more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Sam Kamin, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist "Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 ... see all copies from $8.81! new only from $36.14! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, report a new study, and explore in detail the links between what ... see all copies from $4.68! new only from $7.08! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Search for Rational Drug Control more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist In this comprehensive examination of drug control policy in the United States, the authors address a number of pressing questions. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? The authors discuss priority problems for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Pornography in a Free Society more books like this by Gordon Hawkins, Franklin E Zimring add to wishlist Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the 'civil war over smut'. It addresses an issue about which citizens of Western nations are sharply divided. Gordon Hawkins and Franklin Zimring attempt to look at the problem of pornography in a wider perspective than that of partisan political debate. To that end, they compare two ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist This work has three main aims: the first is to show that what separates the USA from other countries is not crime rates but lethal violence. Crimes like burglary and theft are a part of modern urban life worldwide, whereas shootings and stabbings are not - they are particularly American. Why is this so? Secondly, the book seeks to clarify the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control more books like this by Norval Morris, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist 'We have a cure for crime.' Morris and Hawkins boldly state. 'We offer not a lightning panacea but rather a legislative and administrative regimen which would substantially reduce crime and the fear of crime.' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Capital Punishment and the American Agenda more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Tom Wicker, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment is disappearing from every nation in the West except the United States. No political science of capital punishment in the United States has been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.99! \| SVS
8	The Citizen's Guide to Gun Control more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.88! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Scale of Imprisonment more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, they both reveal that explicit policy changes have ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $16.75!
10	The Prison: Policy and Practice more books like this by Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with realistically. Beginning with a discussion of the ideology of ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $22.53! \| first editions
11	Letter to the President on Crime Control more books like this by Norval Morris, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	Deterrence: The Legal Threat in Crime Control more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon J Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13	Computational models of learning in simple neural systems. by Robert D. Hawkins, Gordon H. Bower add to wishlist see all copies from $4.64!
14	Psychology of Learning & Motivation: Computational Models of Learning in Simple Neural Systems more books like this by Gordon H Bower (Editor), Robert D Hawkins (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.20!
15	A Camellia for Carolyn more books like this by Gordon D. Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $11.94! \| signed copies \| SVS
16	Pursuit of Criminal Justice: Essays from the Chicago Center more books like this by Gordon J. Hawkins (Editor), Franklin E. Zimring (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
17	Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00!
18	Order and Good Government by Gordon Hawkins (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00!

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