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  • The Costs of Crime and Justice

    by Mark A. Cohen ...
    This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society’s response to crime. Crime costs are far-reaching, including medical costs, lost wages, property damage and pain, suffering, and reduced quality of life for victims and the public at large; police, courts, and prisons; and offenders and their families who may ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Why They Do It

    Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal

    by Eugene Soltes ...
    What drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? "Fascinating portraits" (Washington Post) of the dark side of the business world.From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. In Why They Do It, Harvard Business School ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Smarter Crime Control

    A Guide to a Safer Future for Citizens, Communities, and Politicians

    by Irvin Waller ...
    The U.S. is the world´s biggest jailor and one of the most affluent murderous countries, and yet its citizens pay more taxes to sustain law and order than their European counterparts. Yet, the U.S. has the most data in the world on the use of incarceration and its failure. Its researchers have identified more projects able to prevent violence than the rest of the world put together. Its ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • When Brute Force Fails

    How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

    by Mark A. R. Kleiman ...
    Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults—a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

    by Nathan D. Grawe ...
    The decisions we make in the next five years are critical in determining whether colleges thrive or flounder.2017 National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Award for Outstanding AACRAO SEM Research PresentationHigher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The World of Crime

    Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World

    by Jan J. M. van Dijk ...
    *"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption, terrorism, law enforcement, criminal justice and sustainable development."—*Johnson Thomas, BUSINESS ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • From Welfare to Childcare

    What Happens to Young Children When Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work?

    Edited by Natasha Cabrera, Robert Hutchens, H. Elizabeth Peters ...
    Although federal and state support for childcare has increased dramatically in response to welfare work requirements, low-income families are still facing difficulties balancing work and family obligations. There is wide variation across states in the strictness of welfare work requirements and in the generosity of childcare support. In addition, the level of co-payments required and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Cases in Public Policy Analysis

    Third Edition

    by George M. Guess, Paul G. Farnham ...
    Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this new third edition of Cases in Public Policy Analysis offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies.Guess and Farnham clearly explain such basic tools as problem-identification, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Punishment for Sale

    Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

    by Donna Selman, Paul Leighton ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance ... Read more

    $42.89 USD