Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem 9780197521748

In many U.S. cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livab

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English Year 2023

Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem
9780197521748

Fatherlessness has reached epidemic levels.Forty percent of children in the U.S. will go to bed tonight in a home withou

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In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant fro

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The simple truth is that the police do not prevent crime, and some researchers even refer to this responsibility (of the

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Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With

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Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigatio

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Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most

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Police violence is not a new phenomenon. Protest in reaction to that violence is, similarly, nothing new. The 2020 upris

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The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a

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During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence

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