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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gary kleck”
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  • Punishment and Crime

    The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

    by Gary Kleck, Brion Sever ...
    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 ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Point Blank

    Guns and Violence in America

    by Gary Kleck ...
    By 1990 there were approximately 200 million guns in private hands in the United States, and around half of American households contained a gun. Over 30,000 people a year are killed with guns in suicides, homicides, and accidents, and Americans use guns for defensive purposes as many as a million times a year. There is little doubt that gun violence and control are issues of vital importance, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Targeting Guns

    Firearms and Their Control

    Edited by Gary Kleck ...
    Series series Social Institutions and Social Change Series
    This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well. In Targeting Guns, Kleck follows the line of argument and careful statistical inference of his earlier prizewinning volume, Point Blank, while updating the literature reviews and statistical information, and adding two ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • What Is Crime?

    Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It

    by Stuart Henry, Stuart Henry, Marc Gertz, Scott Greer, John Hagan, Gary Kleck, Jerome Michael, Dragan Milovanovic, Charles Otto, Paul Schnorr, Herman Schwendinger0, Julia Schwendinger1, Mark M. Lanier2, Mortimer J. Adler3, Kathyrn Ann Farr4, Don C. Gibbons5, Leroy C. Gould6, Katheryn K. Russell7, Dennis C. Sullivan8, Paul W. Tappan9, Larry L. Tifft0, Ray Surette1 ...
    For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America

    by John Michael Greer ...
    The political theorist and author of After Progress examines the future of U.S. dominance on the world stage in this persuasive and provocative book.The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape. How we respond to this reality will determine much of our future trajectory, with implications that reach far beyond the limits of one nation's ... Read more

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  • Covenant, The (Abram’s Daughters Book #1)

    by Beverly Lewis ...
    Series Book 1 - Abram's Daughters
    Book 1 of Abram's Daughters series from bestselling author Beverly Lewis. Years of secrecy bind the tiny community of Gobbler's Knob together more than the present inhabitants know, and the Plain folk who farm the land rarely interact with the fancy locals. So when Sadie is beguiled by a dark-haired English boy, it is Sadie's younger sister, Leah, who suffers from her sister's shameful loss of ... Read more

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  • Crime and Justice, Volume 42: Crime and Justice in America

    1975-2025

    Edited by Michael Tonry ...
    Series Book 42 - Crime and Justice: A Review of Research
    For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of “law and order” took over. Among the results four decades later are the world’s harshest punishments and highest imprisonment rate. Policymakers’ interest in what science could tell them plummeted just when scientific work on crime, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Great Debates in Criminology

    by Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Forensic Criminology

    Edited by Wayne Petherick, Brent E. Turvey, Claire E. Ferguson ...
    Forensic Criminology gives students of criminology and criminal justice an introduction to the forensic realm and the applied forensic issues they will face when working cases within the justice system. It effectively bridges the theoretical world of social criminology with the applied world of the criminal justice system. While most of the competing textbooks on criminology adequately address the ... Read more

    $96.29 USD

  • Childhood Victimization

    Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People

    by David Finkelhor ...
    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Mismeasure of Crime

    by Clayton Mosher, Terance D. Miethe, Timothy Christopher Hart ...
    A unique look at the problems in measuring crime both historically and internationallyFilled with real world examples derived from media reports on crime trends and other sources, this fully updated Second Edition analyzes the specific errors that can occur in the three most common methods used to report crime—official crime data, self report, and victimization studies. For each method, the ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The City That Became Safe

    New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control

    by Franklin E. Zimring ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen years in New York City. Twice as long and twice as large, it is the largest crime decline on record. In The City That Became Safe, Franklin E. Zimring seeks out the New York difference through a comprehensive investigation ... Read more

    $30.59 USD