Profitable Penalties: How To Cut Both Crimes Rates and Costs

By Daniel Glaser

Book Overview

The United States is now spending huge sums of money getting tough on crime' to the detriment of education and other public service expenditures//programmes. From a cost as well as crime control perspective, this unique book asks whether value for money is being gained from these investments? It looks at existing research on the subject and suggests ways of cutting both crime rates and costs?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761985344
• ISBN13: 9780761985341
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"