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International comparisons
Domanick, J. (2004) Cruel Justice: Three strikes and the politics of crime in America's golden state. University of California Press. [This book examines the background to the passage of the Three Strikes legislation in California and the reasons why it has not proved politically possible to amend or repeal this legislation despite the lack of strong evidence for its effectiveness as a deterrent and the existence of evidence about its problems. For a review of this book see J. Randle in Punishment and Society (2006) Vol 8(2).]
Deterrence: CCTV
Martin Gill, Angela Spriggs (2005) Assessing the impact of CCTV. Home Office Research Study 292: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors252.pdf
Scarman Centre National CCTV Evaluation Team (2003), National evaluation of CCTV: early findings on scheme implementation – effective practice guide. Home Office Development and Practice Report 7: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/dpr7.pdf
Welsh, Brandon C and Farrington, David P (2002). Crime prevention effects of closed circuit television: a systematic review. Home Office Research Study 252: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors252.pdf
Deterrence: Death Penalty
Unnever, J. and Cullen, F. (2005) 'Executing the Innocent and Support for Capital Punishment: implications for public policy' Criminology and Public Policy Vol 4(1) 3-38. [This is one of several articles on the death penalty in this issue. For abstracts see: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118716566/issue]
Sarat, A. (2001) When the State Kills: Capital punishment and the American condition. New Jersey, Princeton University Press
General deterrence
Cuppleditch, L. and Evans, W. (2005) Re-offending of Adults, results from the 2002 cohort, Home Office Statistical Bulletin, London, Home Office.
Curran,K., Dale, M., Edwards, M., Hough, M., Millie, A. and Wagstaff, M. (2005) Street Crime in London, Deterrence, Disruption and Displacement. Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Kings College London and the Government Office for London, London.
Home Office (2005) Crime and Justice Survey: for latest reports and progress of the 2005 survey on the prevalence of offending in the general population see: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/offending_survey.html
Robinson, P. and Darley, J.M. (2004) 'Does Criminal Law Deter? A Behavioural Science Investigation', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 23(2) 173-206.
Von Hirsch, A., Bottoms, A., Burney, E. and Wikstrom, P.O. (1999) Criminal Deterrence and Sentencing Severity. Oxford, Hart.
Does prison deter?
Domanick, J. (2004) Cruel Justice: Three strikes and the politics of crime in America's golden state. University of California Press. [See note above.]
Windzio, M. (2006) 'Is there a deterrent effect of pains of imprisonment? The impact of 'social costs' of first incarceration on the hazard rate of recidivism', Punishment and Society Vol 8(2) 241-364, [The author reassesses the deterrent impact of imprisonment with reference to juvenile male offenders and focuses on the subjective experience of imprisonment for offenders.]
'Utilitarian critique'
Steen, S. and Bandy, R. (2007) 'When the policy becomes the problem: criminal justice in the new millennium' Punishment and Society 9:1 (2007) pp 5-26. [The authors offer a critique of retributivist policies in the United States from the standpoint of utilitarian perspectives, highlighting the differences between the two approaches.]
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