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Crime Control in America: What Works? by John L. Worrall

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Read for CRJ201: Crime Control. Interesting text, in that it would lay out all the concepts of crime control that have been used/are being currently used in the United States and then tell you that empirical studies have not proven the veracity of any of the policies. At most, you're given a slight nudge toward a possible positive/negative correlation, but with an added avalanche of disclaimers regarding the difficult of removing variables from the sociological aspect of the work and therefore the results should always be taken with a grain of salt. A shaker of it. A goddamn salt lick. Basically, don't ever trust studies to be conclusive.
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