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The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control
Franklin E. Zimring

In The City That Became Safe, Franklin E. Zimring seeks out the New York difference through a comprehensive investigation into the city's falling crime rates. The usual understanding is that aggressive police created a zero-tolerance law enforcement regime that drove crime rates down. Is this political sound bite true-are the official statistics generated by the police accurate? Though zero-tolerance policing and quality-of-life were never a consistent part of the NYPD's strategy, Zimring shows the numbers are correct and argues that some combination of more cops, new tactics, and new management can take some credit for the decline That the police can make a difference at all in preventing crime overturns decades of conventional wisdom from criminologists, but Zimring also points out what most experts have missed: the New York experience challenges the basic assumptions driving American crime- and drug-control policies.

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Wicked Danville: Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City
Frankie Y. Bailey and Alice P. Green

Since the days when Danville's tobacco warehouses infamously served as stockades for Union prisoners, the history of this Virginia community has had its dark side. Take the rivalry between Reverend John Moffett and his anti-prohibitionist political nemesis, J.T. Clark. The good minister made his point about demon rum, but he lost his life for the cause. Then there was Police Chief R.E. Morris, who created quite a stir when it was discovered that he was, in fact, a Georgia fugitive wanted for murder. Join authors Frankie Bailey and Alice Green as they explore some not-so-wicked crimes and tiptoe through the vice-laden streets of historic Danville with tales of shifty politicians, moonshiners and scarlet ladies.

 

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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
Ruth W. Grant

Incentives can be found everywhere--in schools, businesses, factories, and government--influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives seem innocuous. But Strings Attached demonstrates that when incentives are viewed as a kind of power rather than as a form of exchange, many ethical questions arise: How do incentives affect character and institutional culture? Can incentives be manipulative or exploitative, even if people are free to refuse them? What are the responsibilities of the powerful in using incentives? Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses.

 

Especially noteworthy: In chapter 6, Grant criticizes the role that plea bargains play in the criminal justice system and argues that a plea bargain “always gives the defendant either more or less than she deserves and is therefore, in principle, an inappropriate means toward the end of meting out justice.”

 

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