Crime and Public Policy

James Q. Wilson is Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.Joan Petersilia is Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

• 1. Introduction, James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia ; 2. Crime in International Perspective, James P. Lynch and William Alex Pridemore ; 3. Crime and Biology, Terrie E. Moffitt, Stephen Ross, and Adrian Raine ; 4. Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice, Peter W. Greenwood & Susan Turner ; 5. Families and Crime, David P. Farrington ; 6. Street Gangs: How Research Can Inform Policy, Cheryl Maxson ; 7. Labor Markets and Crime, Shawn D. Bushway ; 8. The Community, Robert J. Sampson ; 9. Race and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the United States, Randall Kennedy ; 10. Gun Control, Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga, and Mark H. Moore ; 11. Rehabilitation and Treatment Programs, Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson ; 12. Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Policy, Eric Beauregard and Roxanne Lieb ; 13. Drugs, Crime, and Public Policy, David A. Boyum, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Mark A. R. Kleiman ; 14. General Deterrence: A Review of Recent Evidence, Robert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin ; 15. Prosecution, Brian Forst ; 16. Sentencing, Kevin R. Reitz ; 17. Community Corrections: Probation, Parole, and Prisoner Reentry, Joan Petersilia ; 18. Prisons, Anne Morrison Piehl and Bert Useem ; 19. Changing Crime Rates, Richard Rosenfeld ; 20. Democratic Policing on the Evidence, Lawrence W. Sherman ; 21. Crime and Public Policy, James Q. Wilson ; Notes and References ; Index

Reliable crime statistics give many of the authors a powerful tool to employ when explaining how public policy affects crime. Crime and Public Policy assembles an interesting and diverse selection of works that inform how society can approach the issue of crime.