Thinking about crimeArgues that criminal activity is largely rational, shaped by rewards and penalties it offers versus the outcome of other available activities. |
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| Title | Thinking about crime |
| Author | James Q. Wilson |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0465085490, 9780465085491 |
| Length | 231 pages |
| Subjects | › Crime Crime - United States Crime/ United States Criminal justice, Administration of Criminal justice, Administration of - United States Criminal justice, Administration of/ United States Criminals Law / General Social Science / Criminology |
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