Profitable Penalties: How to Cut Both Crimes Rates and Costs

by Daniel Glaser

The United States is now spending huge sums of money `getting tough on crime′ to the detriment of education and other public service expenditures//programmes. From a cost as well as crime control perspective, this unique book asks whether value for money is being gained from these investments? It looks at existing research on the subject and suggests ways of cutting both crime rates and costs?

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 22, 1997

About the author

Daniel Glaser is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, specializing in criminology at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of a dozen books and about 200 articles and is past president of the American Society of Criminology, the Illinois Academy of Criminology, and California’s Association for Criminal Justice Research.