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Crime and Punishment in America

Crime and Punishment in America Paperback / softback - 2013

by Elliott Currie

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Statistics reveal that there are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. Despite some recent declines in urban crime rates, we remain the most violent industrial society on earth. In a hard-hitting and accessible work, nationally acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie lays out why the solutions to America's most stubborn social crisis have not worked--and what will.

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Paperback / softback. New. In 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and California's prison system ranked among the largest in the world. In this work on the American penal system, the author offers a vivid critique of America's incarceration binge, and focuses on the developments in criminal justice.
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  • Title Crime and Punishment in America
  • Author Elliott Currie
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York, NY
  • Date 2013-03-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781250024213
  • ISBN 9781250024213 / 1250024218
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.21 x 5.5 x 0.79 in (20.85 x 13.97 x 2.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social policy, Criminal justice, Administration of - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012043259
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.973

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About the author

Elliott Currie is the author of Confronting Crime, Reckoning, and The Road to Whatever. An internationally recognized authority on youth and crime, he is a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine.