The Challenge of Crime
Subtitle: Rethinking Our Response
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780674008915
Subjects: Causes & prevention of crime; Central government policies; 21st century; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Criminology; Criminal Law - General; Social Science; United States; Sociology; USA; General; Social Science / Criminology; Crime prevention; Crime; Criminal justice, Administrati; Criminal justice, Administration of
Description: "This book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's crime response since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime.

Concentrating on meaningful areas for change in policing, sentencing, guns, drugs, and juvenile crime, they discuss such topics as new priorities for the use of incarceration; aggressive policing; the war on drugs; the need to switch the gun control debate to a focus on crime gun regulation; a new focus on offenders' transition from confinement to freedom; and the role of private enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.