Punishment and Crime

The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

Bibliographic Data

ID19949017
AuthorsGary Kleck (0000-0001-9024-6896), BRION SEVER (0009-0008-2175-8933)
Year2017
Publication date2017-10-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePunishment and Crime (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315142258
OpenAlexW3127677584
ISBN9781315142258
Open LibraryOL39346879M
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence and incapacitation. Brion Sever and Gary Kleck, author of the renowned Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America, present a literature review on legal punishment in the United States that is unparalleled in depth and scope. This text is a must-read for students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with the fields of corrections and crime prevention

Criminology · Political science · Punishment (psychology) · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Philosophy · Punishment · Punishment in crime deterrence · Social Science

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