The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response

By Kevin R. Reitz and Henry S. Ruth

The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a three-decade pattern of prison growth came to a full stop in the early 2000s, the current debate will be by far the most punitive in US history, hitting some minority communities particularly hard.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400891X
• ISBN13: 9780674008915
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.5"