Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction

Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction
ISBN-10
0415774152
ISBN-13
9780415774154
Category
Social Science
Pages
220
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Routledge
Author
David M. Kennedy

Description

"Drawing on a wide range of scholarly literatures and real-world experience, David Kennedy argues that we should reframe the ways in which we think about and produce deterrence. He argues that many of the ways in which we seek to deter crime in fact facilitate offending; that simple steps such as providing clear information to offenders could transform deterrence; that communities may be far more effective than legal authorities in deterring crime; that apparently minor sanctions can deter more effectively than draconian ones; that groups, rather than individual offenders, should often be the focus of deterrence; that existing legal tools can be used in unusual but greatly more effective ways; that even serious offenders can be reached through deliberate moral engagement; and that authorities, communities, and offenders - no matter how divided - share and can occupy hidden common ground."--BOOK JACKET.

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