Punishment and crime: the limits of punitive crime control
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theory : the mechanisms by which legal punishment might reduce crime -- Deterrence and the rational choice model of criminal behavior : the case of the disappearing theory -- General methodological problems in punishment research -- Individual-level research on ge...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Routledge
2018
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| En: | Año: 2018 |
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| Sumario: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theory : the mechanisms by which legal punishment might reduce crime -- Deterrence and the rational choice model of criminal behavior : the case of the disappearing theory -- General methodological problems in punishment research -- Individual-level research on general deterrence : the impact of perceptions of legal risk on criminal behavior -- Individual-level research on the effects of punishment on the punished : special deterrence -- Macro-level research on the effect of punishment levels -- The impact of capital punishment on murder rates -- The missing link between macro-level and individual-level effects : the impact of macro-level punishment levels on individual perceptions of legal risk -- Incapacitative effects of incarceration and the impact of imprisonment rates -- Crime-increasing effects of punishment -- Conclusions -- Index. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 333 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781315142258 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315142258 |