Making America safer
Subtitle: what citizens and their state and local officials can do to combat crime
By: edited by Edwin Meese III and Robert E. Moffit.
Contributors: Meese, Edwin.; Moffit, Robert E.; Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: Heritage Foundation
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Crime prevention -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The real root causes of violent crime : the breakdown of marriage, family, and community / Patrick F. Fagan; title: Crime, poverty, and the family / William P. Barr; title: Less bang-bang for the buck : the market approach to crime control / Reuben M. Greenberg; title: Getting backup : twenty-one steps public officials can take to support their local police / Robert E. Moffit and Edwin Meese III; title: Cutting crime and restoring order : what America can learn from New York's finest / William J. Bratton; title: How state and local officials can restore discipline and civility to America's public schools / C. Stephen Wallis; title: How state and local officials can combat violent juvenile crime / James Wootton and Robert O. Heck; title: Redd scare : a drill sergeant's brilliant assault on juvenile crime / Joe Loconte; title: How Washington subverts your local sheriff / Edwin Meese III and Rhett DeHart; title: How states can fight violent crime : two dozen steps to a safer America / Mary Kate Cary; title: Arresting ideas : tougher law enforcement is driving down urban drime / John J. DiIulio, Jr.; title: Truth in sentencing : why states should make violent criminals do their time / James Wootton; title: Deliver us from evil : prison fellowship's saving grace / Tucker Carlson.