Crime and justice
Subtitle: a review of research. Vol. 28
By: edited by Michael Tonry.
Contributors: Tonry, Michael H.; Castine Research Corporation.; National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
Series: Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) -- v. 28; Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) -- v. 28.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Crime; Criminal justice, Administration of; Crime -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Crime prevention
Notes: "Prepared under grant number 92-IJ-CX-K044 awarded to the Castine Research Corporation by the National Institute of Justice"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Understanding desistance from crime / John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson; title: Sentencing reform in the other Washington / David Boerner and Roxanne Lieb; title: Firearms regulation: a historical overview / Michael A. Bellesiles; title: Construct of psychopathy / Grant T. Harris, Tracey A. Skilling, and Marnie E. Rice; title: Private prisons / Richard Harding; title: Measuring the economic benefits of developmental prevention programs / Daniel S. Nagin; title: Purposes, practices, and problems of supermax prisons / Leena Kurki and Norval Morris.