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Punishment and crime : the limits of punitive crime control / Gary Kleck and Brion Sever.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleck, Gary, 1951- author.
- Sever, Brion, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment in crime deterrence.
- Punishment--Philosophy.
- Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 333 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Theory : the mechanisms by which legal punishment might reduce crime
- Deterrence and the rational choice model of criminal behavior : the case of the disappearing theory
- General methodological problems in punishment research
- Individual-level research on general deterrence : the impact of perceptions of legal risk on criminal behavior
- Individual-level research on the effects of punishment on the punished : special deterrence
- Macro-level research on the effect of punishment levels
- The impact of capital punishment on murder rates
- The missing link between macro-level and individual-level effects : the impact of macro-level punishment levels on individual perceptions of legal risk
- Incapacitative effects of incarceration and the impact of imprisonment rates
- Crime-increasing effects of punishment
- Conclusions
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138307261
- 1138307262
- 9781138307254
- 1138307254
- OCLC:
- 993752275
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