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Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the prospect of sanction (Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics)
Deterrence and Crime Prevention Reconsidering the prospect of sanction - Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics
Author: David M. Kennedy
Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority, works ? it is hoped -- to diminish offen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415774154
ISBN-10: 0415774152
Publication Date: 9/30/2008
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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