Crime and Justice: A Review of Research. Vol. 37

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Michael H. Tonry
University of Chicago Press, 2008 - Capital punishment - 502 pages
Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cure. Volume 37 covers a range of criminal justice issues from the effects of parental imprisonment on children to economists and crime. Contributors to this volume are Shawn Bushway, Todd Clear, Francis T. Cullen, David P. Farrington, Tappio Lappi-Sappälä, Cheryl N. Lero-Jonson, Matthew Melewski, Joseph Murray, Joan Petersilia, Alex Piquero, Peter Reuter, Michael Tonry, James D. Unnever, and David Weisburd.

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Contents

Race Racism and Support for Capital Punishment
45
The Effects of High Imprisonment Rates on Communities
97
The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children
133
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy and the Sonofsky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He is also a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

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