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Part of the series Crime and justice : a review of research, 0192-3234 volume 44;Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) v. 44. 0192-3234
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- Preface / Michael Tonry — From slavery to social class to disadvantage: an intellectual history of the use of class to explain racial differences in criminal involvement / Robert D. Crutchfield — Race, crime, and punishment in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Cassia Spohn — Federal sentencing reform since 1984: the awful as enemy of the good / Michael Tonry — Drug policy: the Dutch model / Marianne van Ooyen-Houben and Edward Kleemans — What can be learned from cross-national comparisons of data on illegal drugs? / Beau Kilmer, Peter Reuter, and Luca Giommoni — Crime trends and the elasticity of evil: has a broadening view of violence affected our statistical indicators? / James P. Lynch and Lynn A. Addington — Community design and crime: the impact of housing and the built environment / John MacDonald — Does marriage reduce crime? / Torbjørn Skardhamar, Jukka Savolainen, Kjersti N. Aase, and Torkild H. Lyngstad — Benefit-cost analysis of crime prevention programs / Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington, and B. Raffan Gowar — Prisoner reentry programs / Cheryl Lero Jonson and Francis T. Cullen — Juvenile justice policy and practice: a developmental perspective / Kathryn Monahan, Laurence Steinberg, and Alex R. Piquero.
- The research presented in this volume of Crime and Justice is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners who need authoritative current knowledge about crime, its causes, and its consequences. Through an international and interdisciplinary approach to core issues in criminology, the essays analyze important developments in crime and the criminal justice system to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, lawyers, apolitical scientists, and scholars in a wide range of related disciplines.
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