Thinking About Crime by Michael Tonry
Examines the American crime policy. This book explains how the worst policies can be undone and how the avoidable human suffering they produce can be diminished. It presents a treatment of crime as a social problem.
Thinking About Crime is a lively and lucid account of the dramatic changes in penal policy in the US, with a cogent critique of their effectiveness and justiceThe Times Literary Supplement
Michael Tonry is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute on Comparative and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. Previously he was director of the Institute of Criminology at
Cambridge University. He is a visiting professor of law and criminology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a senior fellow in the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Free University Amsterdam. Tonry is the author or editor of numerous books on criminal
justice, race and crime, and sentencing, including Thinking about Crime and Punishing Race.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195141016 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195141016 |
| Title | Thinking About Crime |
| Author | Michael Tonry |
| Series | Studies In Crime And Public Policy Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2004-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 278 |
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