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The U.S. has prohibited export of crime-control products to China for instance, fingerprinting equipment ever since Beijing's deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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The results of this experiment contradict four decades of crime-control orthodoxy.
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The U.S. has prohibited export of crime-control products to China for instance, fingerprinting equipment ever since Beijing's deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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That may be the most cost-effective crime-control program ever invented, since the cost of sending out the nurses is more than covered by reduced costs elsewhere in the health-care system due to the fact that the children don't get sick as often.
Mark Kleiman: When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
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One way to frame the general problem of crime-control policy is, “What set of actions would result in the least total harm and cost, from crime and crime-control efforts combined?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
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That means that non-prison spending should be preferred to prison spending if we can achieve a given crime-control gain for the same additional dollars by spending it on cops and probation officers rather than spending it on further expanding institutional corrections.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benefits and costs: crime, crime avoidance, crime control
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The answer to that question will not be the only factor that influences, or should influence, crime-control policy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
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If a 1% reduction in crime is worth $15 billion, even modestly successful crime-control efforts can easily justify their budgets.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benefits and costs: crime, crime avoidance, crime control
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"Concern for the legal rights of accused persons and civil liberties in general is tied to opposition to gun control and difficulty in applying crime-control measures," writes Lipset.
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Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini says that the group tried -- in vain -- to defeat a measure curtailing firearms sales to youths aged 18 to 24, and that on other crime-control measures, such as a gun buyback program, a teen curfew and putting police substations in neighborhoods, the NRA was nowhere to be found.
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