Edited by Edited by James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia
Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other
aspects to crime control. Yet the latest research is rarely heard in public discussions and is often missing from the desks of policymakers. This book accessibly summarizes the latest scientific information on the causes of crime and evidence about what does and does not work to control it.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Crime and Public Policy will include twenty chapters and five new substantial entries. As with previous editions, each essay reviews the existing literature, discusses the methodological rigor of the studies, identifies what policies and
programs the studies suggest, and then points to policies now implemented that fail to reflect the evidence. The chapters cover the principle institutions of the criminal justice system (juvenile justice, police, prisons, probation and parole, sentencing), how broader aspects of social life inhibit
or encourage crime (biology, schools, families, communities), and topics currently generating a great deal of attention (criminal activities of gangs, sex offenders, prisoner reentry, changing crime rates).
With contributions from trusted, leading scholars, Crime and Public Policy
offers the most comprehensive and balanced guide to how the latest and best social science research informs the understanding of crime and its control for policymakers, community leaders, and students of crime and criminal justice.
1. James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia: Introduction
2. James P. Lynch and William Alex Pridemore: Crime in International Perspective
3. Terrie E. Moffitt, Stephen Ross, and Adrian Raine: Crime and Biology
4. Peter W. Greenwood and Susan Turner: Juvenile Crime and Juvenile
Justice
5. David P. Farrington: Families and Crime
6. Cheryl Maxson: Street Gangs: How Research Can Inform Policy
7. Robert J. Sampson: Labor Markets and Crime
8. Robert J. Sampson: The Community
9. Randall Kennedy: Race and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the United
States
10. Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga, and Mark H. Moore: Gun Control
11. Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson: Rehabilitation and Treatment Programs
12. Eric Beauregard and Roxanne Lieb: Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Policy
13. David A. Boyum, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and
Mark A. R. Kleiman: Drugs, Crime, and Public Policy
14. Robert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin: General Deterrence: A Review of Recent Evidence
15. Brian Forst: Prosecution
16. Kevin R. Reitz: Sentencing
17. Joan Petersilia: Community Corrections: Probation, Parole, and Prisoner
Reentry
18. Anne Morrison Piehl and Bert Useem: Prisons
19. Richard Rosenfeld: Changing Crime Rates
20. Lawrence W. Sherman: Democratic Policing on the Evidence
21. James Q. Wilson: Crime and Public Policy
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James Q. Wilson is Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. Joan Petersilia is Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
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