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Thinking About Crime
Michael Tonry
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Description for Thinking About Crime
Paperback. Spells out how American crime policy has reached the lowpoint it has and where we can go from here. This work explains how the worst of policies can be undone and how the avoidable human suffering they produce can be diminished. Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: JKV; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
Crime is an American preoccupation. Campaigns such as "the war on drugs," zero tolerance policing, and three strikes and you're out--not to mention the ever-shrill coverage of crime stories-all suggest a perpetually outraged nation determined to keep its criminal element at bay, no matter the cost. But is this really what average Americans think about crime and crime control measures? Or is the "no holds barred" approach merely another oscillation in an ongoing cycle of intolerance and tolerance in American thinking? Have prevailing but short-lived sensibilities on crime overruled our common sense? In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry ... Read more
Crime is an American preoccupation. Campaigns such as "the war on drugs," zero tolerance policing, and three strikes and you're out--not to mention the ever-shrill coverage of crime stories-all suggest a perpetually outraged nation determined to keep its criminal element at bay, no matter the cost. But is this really what average Americans think about crime and crime control measures? Or is the "no holds barred" approach merely another oscillation in an ongoing cycle of intolerance and tolerance in American thinking? Have prevailing but short-lived sensibilities on crime overruled our common sense? In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Crime and Public Policy
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195304909
SKU
V9780195304909
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About Michael Tonry
Michael Tonry is one of the nation's most respected experts on crime and punishment. The author of the highly acclaimed Malign Neglect and (with Norval Morris) Between Prison and Probation, he is director of the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an advisor to ... Read more
Reviews for Thinking About Crime
Thinking About Crime is a lively and lucid account of the dramatic changes in penal policy in the US, with a cogent critique of their effectiveness and justice.
The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement