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Examines how to reduce crime in the U.S. and improve the quality of life. Cites social costs in terms of ecnomics. Crime statistics. Selected types of crime activity in poor urban areas. Problems of gangs and drugs. Assessment of crime prevention programs; ones that work. Issue of funding for community policing.

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"Crime Control and Justice in the United States: A Forecast

Crime is seen as having profound effects on the quality of life in the United States, and as imposing social costs that reach as much as $1 trillion per year (Ludwig, Duncan, & Hirschfield, 2001). Crime statistics indicate that selected types of crime in specific geographic locales have been declining, but according to Stephens (2001), crime and crime control continue to occupy a central position on the American social and political agenda. This report will examine the ways in which the national crime control efforts and the administration of justice are likely to evolve and change over the course of the next 50 years. It will be argued that a combination of what Stephens (2001) calls proactive policing and the deployment of sophisticated electronic technologies to ..."

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