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Title:

Making America safer : what citizens and their state and local officials can do to combat crime / edited by Edwin Meese III and Robert E. Moffit.

Publisher:

Heritage Foundation,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xv, 206 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Crime prevention--United States.

Other Authors:

Meese, Edwin.
Moffit, Robert Emmet.
Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The real root causes of violent crime : the breakdown of marriage, family, and community / Patrick F. Fagan -- Crime, poverty, and the family / William P. Barr -- Less bang-bang for the buck : the market approach to crime control / Reuben M. Greenberg -- Getting backup : twenty-one steps public officials can take to support their local police / Robert E. Moffit and Edwin Meese III -- Cutting crime and restoring order : what America can learn from New York's finest / William J. Bratton -- How state and local officials can restore discipline and civility to America's public schools / C. Stephen Wallis -- How state and local officials can combat violent juvenile crime / James Wootton and Robert O. Heck -- Redd scare : a drill sergeant's brilliant assault on juvenile crime / Joe Loconte -- How Washington subverts your local sheriff / Edwin Meese II and Rhett DeHart -- How states can fight violent crime : two dozen steps to a safer America / Mary Kate Cary -- Arresting ideas : tougher law enforcement is driving down urban drime / John J. Dilulio, Jr. -- Truth in sentencing : why states should make violent criminals do their time / James Wootton -- Deliver us from evil : prison fellowship's saving grace / Tucker Carlson.

ISBN:

9780891950691
0891950699

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36890416

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City) — 364.4/0973

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)