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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 $9.97! new only from $36.14! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Criminal Deterrence and Sentence Severity more books like this by Andrew Von Hirsch, Per-Olof Wikstrom, Elizabeth Burney add to wishlist The Insitute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge recently undertook,at the behest of the Home Office, a comprehensive study of the literature on criminal deterrence, concentrating on recent research. The result, published in this book, examines the popular claim that 'deterrence works'. That it works in general terms is beyond dispute ... see all copies from $59.20! new only from $59.20! \| SVS
3	Profitable Penalties: How to Cut Both Crimes Rates and Costs more books like this by Daniel Glaser add to wishlist The United States is now spending huge sums of money 'getting tough on crime' to the detriment of education and other public service expenditures//programmes. From a cost as well as crime control perspective, this unique book asks whether value for money is being gained from these investments? It looks at existing research on the subject and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.67! \| first editions
4	The Death Penalty: Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors more books like this by Alfred Heilbrun add to wishlist Capital punishment attracts strong and opposing moral positions execution by the state under any condition is wrong versus execution as just retribution for heinous killing. Using evidence from legal history, this book rejects these moral arguments as a basis for determining the social value of the death penalty and considers the issue ... see all copies from $6.13! new only from $45.48! \| first editions
5	Justice as Sanctuary: Toward a New System of Crime Control more books like this by Herman Bianchi add to wishlist see all copies from $120.46!
6	Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime? more books like this by Amy Marcaccio Keyzer (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.38! new only from $25.81! \| SVS
7	Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime? more books like this by Gale Group (Creator) add to wishlist Whether executing violent offenders deters murder and violent crime is a major aspect of the capital punishment debate. Contributors to this anthology use both theories and hard evidence to support their divergent views on the death penalty's power of deterrence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Group Problems in Crime and Punishment: And Other Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law more books like this by Hermann Mannheim add to wishlist Originally published in 1955. see all copies from $15.70! new only from $190.97! \| first editions
9	Policing and Punishing the Drinking Driver: A Study of General and Specific Deterrence more books like this by R Homel add to wishlist see all copies from $104.00! new only from $111.00!
10	Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime? more books like this by Stephen E Schonebaum (Editor) add to wishlist Proponents of capital punishment insist that criminals are dissuaded from committing murder if they know they will be executed. However, critics maintain that capital punishment's supposed deterrent effect is not supported by statistics, studies, and other sources. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Information Plus Prisons & Jails November 2003 more books like this by Information Plus (Creator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.18!
12	Making Sense of Penal Change more books like this by Tom Daems add to wishlist This book reviews the burgeoning literature on contemporary punishment and penal change, concentrating on the work of four scholars- David Garland, John Pratt, Hans Boutellier and Loic Wacquant. The book differs from classical reviews in that it places the scholars themselves, rather than the problem to be addressed, at the centre of the book. ... see all copies from $97.35! new only from $97.35!
13 view cover	Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction more books like this by David M Kennedy add to wishlist Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority, works - it is hoped - to diminish offending ... see all copies from $121.80! new only from $121.80!
14	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
15	Punishment and Deterrence more books like this by Johannes Andens add to wishlist see all copies from $4.23!
16 view cover	Crime Control and Social Justice: The Delicate Balance more books like this by Darnell F Hawkins (Editor), Samuel L Myers, Jr. (Editor), Randolph N Stone (Editor) add to wishlist Investigates the tension between the nation's quest for equality, freedom, and individual rights, and efforts to curb rising rates of crime during the last several decades. see all copies from $68.90! new only from $116.68!
17 view cover	Does Prison Work? more books like this by Charles Murray add to wishlist Crime is low when crime doesn't pay, is the motto of this provocative essay by Charles Murray. He challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice establishment that locking up criminals solves nothing. Like other volumes in this series, 'Does Prison Work?' features a number of critical responses to Murray's thesis, in order to give ... see all copies from $29.33! first editions
18 view cover	Punishment to fit the crime? more books like this by Alison Cooper add to wishlist An addition to the VIEWPOINTS series which looks at the system of justice that operates in the world today, and how effective the various laws and pieces of legislation are. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
19	Preventing Crime more books like this by James A Cramer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
20	Death penalty and crime : empirical studies more books like this by Kilman Shin add to wishlist see all copies from $27.75! first editions
21	The philosophy of crime and punishment more books like this by William Torrey Harris, National Prison Association of the United States, YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) add to wishlist see all copies from $35.00!
22	Le contrôle social du crime more books like this by Maurice Cusson add to wishlist see all copies from $28.00!
23	Jugendkriminalität und die Grenzen der Generalprävention more books like this by Karl F. Schumann add to wishlist see all copies from $59.06!

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