@article{453532,
      author = {Kleiman, Mark.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453532},
      title = {When brute force fails how to have less crime and less  punishment / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      abstract = {Since 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 still  bear the brunt of both crime and punishment. This work  explains how we got into the current trap and how we can  get out of it: to cut both crime and the prison population  in half within a decade.  The author demonstrates that  simply locking up more people for lengthier terms is no  longer a workable crime-control strategy. But, he says,  there has been a revolution, largely unnoticed by the  press, in controlling crime by means other than brute-force  incarceration: substituting swiftness and certainty of  punishment for randomized severity, concentrating  enforcement resources rather than dispersing them,  communicating specific threats of punishment to specific  offenders, and enforcing probation and parole conditions to  make community corrections a genuine alternative to  incarceration. As the author shows, "zero tolerance" is  nonsense: there are always more offenses than there is  punishment capacity. But, it is possible and essential to  create focused zero tolerance, by clearly specifying the  rules and then delivering the promised sanctions every time  the rules are broken.  Brute-force crime control has been a  costly mistake, both socially and financially. Now that we  know how to do better, according to the author, it would be  immoral not to put that knowledge to work.},
      recid = {453532},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 231 p.) :},
      address = {Princeton [New Jersey] :},
      year = {2009},
}