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Author : Kamala D. Harris
Release Date : 01 July 2010
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Genre : Law
Pages : 210
ISBN 13 : 9780811876193

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The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two thirds of people released from prison commit anothercrime within two years. In Smart on Crime, career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and myths, and offers a compelling argument for how to make the criminal justice system truly, not just rhetorically, tough. Harris spells out the necessary shifts that will increase public safety, reduce costs, and strengthen our communities when our politicians and law enforcement officials learn how to become tough and smart on crime.

Smart on Crime

Author : Kamala D. Harris,Joan O'C. Hamilton
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Genre : Law
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The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two thirds of people released from prison commit anothercrime within two years. In Smart on Crime, career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and myths, and offers a compelling argument for how to make the ...

Smart on Crime

Author : Garrick L. Percival
Publisher : CRC Press
Genre : Business & Economics
Total View : 456 Views
File Size : 50,7 Mb
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The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this dramatic turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on ...

Criminal Justice at the Crossroads

Author : William R. Kelly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Genre : Social Science
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Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also ...

The Future of Crime and Punishment

Author : William R. Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Genre : Political Science
Total View : 241 Views
File Size : 42,6 Mb
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Today, we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending, some fairly obvious like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse and others less so, such as neurocognitive problems. Today, we have ...

Fearmonger

Author : Paula Mallea
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Genre : Political Science
Total View : 796 Views
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"Will Stephen Harper's billions for his tough-on-crime agenda make our streets any safer?" -- cover....

The Truths We Hold

Author : Kamala Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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A New York Times bestseller From Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the ...

Women Crime and Criminology

Author : Carol Smart
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Social Science
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First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as marginal to the 'proper' study of crime in society. Carol Smart explores a ...

Superheroes Are Everywhere

Author : Kamala Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Total View : 867 Views
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From Vice President Kamala Harris comes a picture book with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us--and if we try, we can all be heroes too. Now a #1 New York Times bestseller! Before Kamala Harris was elected to the vice presidency, she was a little girl who loved superheroes. ...