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Pulling Levers: Getting Deterrence Right

Can we make deterrence work? Criminal justice agencies have always tried, but the results—whether of preventive patrol or the death penalty—have always been dubious. The three vignettes on Boston, Lowell, and Minneapolis highlight a new approach to crafting deterrence strategies, and in the larger tales that lie behind them there is reason to be optimistic.

Available online

http://www.ncjrs.gov/

Author(s)

David Kennedy

Date

July 1998

Periodical

National Institute of Justice Journal, no. 236