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Crime
Overview
Reducing street crime, and white-collar crime, is about social control of _____.
We develop policies about crime on the basis of _____.
What are key theories that are advanced to explain crime?
-What is the "broken windows" theory (it's actually a sub-theory...)?
How do Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld and work with these theories in Crime and the American Dream? What is their overall perspective on why crime rates are so high in the US?
Both of the traditional approaches to criminal justice are primarily concerned with what should be done after a crime has been committed. What are they?
-These approaches have roots in our history. Explain.
-Conservatives tend to support _____ and liberals _____.
There is also the "punishment" vs. "prevention" debate. What is it? (Those who are more punishment oriented focus on ____, while others who emphasize prevention pay attention to ____.)
-In general, the punishment approach attracts _____; the prevention......

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