Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

by Gary Kleck and Brion Sever

This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138307262
• ISBN13: 9781138307261
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"