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Thinking about Crime: Theories of Crime and Justice
Now with a new foreword by the prominent scholar and best-selling author Charles Murray, this revised edition of Thinking About Crime introduces a new generation of readers to the theories and ideas that have been so influential in shaping ...
In the June 2002 case of Daryl Atkins, a Virginia man with an IQ of fifty-nine, the Supreme Court decided that a “national consensus” now exists that mentally retarded offenders are categorically less culpable than the average offender ...
Argues that criminal activity is largely rational, shaped by rewards and penalties it offers versus the outcome of other available activities.
Thinking about Crime
In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties.
Argues that criminal activity is largely rational, shaped by rewards and penalties it offers versus the outcome of other available activities.