Profitable Penalties

How To Cut Both Crimes Rates and Costs

von Daniel Glaser

322 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 suggests ways of cutting both crime rates and costs?

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziale Dienste und Sozialwesen, Kriminologie Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik)
• ISBN: 9780761985341
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.07.1997
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc