Confronting crime
Subtitle: an American challenge
By: Elliott Currie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Crime -- United States.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.; Violent crimes -- United States -- Prevention.
Description: Probes the social, political, and economic factors behind America's crime problem, challenges conservative views of permissiveness and judicial weakness, and calls for a new approach to solving the crime crisis.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 279-316.
Includes index.