Punishment and Crime
eBook - ePub

Punishment and Crime

The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

  1. 334 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Punishment and Crime

The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

About this book

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 and incapacitation.

Brion Sever and Gary Kleck, author of the renowned Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, present a literature review on legal punishment in the United States that is unparalleled in depth and scope. This text is a must-read for students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with the fields of corrections and crime prevention.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351392228
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Theory: The Mechanisms by Which Legal Punishment Might Reduce Crime
  10. 3 Deterrence and the Rational Choice Model of Criminal Behavior: The Case of the Disappearing Theory
  11. 4 General Methodological Problems in Punishment Research
  12. 5 Individual-Level Research on General Deterrence: The Impact of Perceptions of Legal Risk on Criminal Behavior
  13. 6 Individual-level Research on the Effects of Punishment on Those Punished
  14. 7 Macro-Level Research on the Effect of Punishment Levels
  15. 8 The Impact of Capital Punishment on Murder Rates
  16. 9 Do Actual Levels of Punishment Affect Perceptions of Legal Risk?
  17. 10 The Incapacitative Effects of Imprisonment
  18. 11 Crime-Increasing Effects of Punishment
  19. 12 Conclusions
  20. Index