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WHEN BRUTE FORCE FAILS
HOW TO HAVE LESS CRIME AND LESS PUNISHMENT
MARK KLEIMAN

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (SEP 2009)
HARDCOVER, 256 pages, 234 x 155 mm.
Prod. # 9780691142081 (American edition)
Category: Sociology

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WHEN BRUTE FORCE FAILS: HOW TO HAVE LESS CRIME AND LESS PUNISHMENT American paperback edition

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Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the US has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults - a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. This title demonstrates that simply locking up more people for lengthier terms is no longer a workable crime-control strategy.

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