Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets - Couverture rigide

Abt, Thomas

 
9781541645721: Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
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ISBN 10 : 1541645723 ISBN 13 : 9781541645721
Editeur : Basic Books, 2019

Synopsis

A powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America that “makes a compelling case that there is a path forward” (Vox)

Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities.

Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself -- not drugs, gangs, or guns. Because violence is "sticky," clustering among small groups of people and places, it can be predicted and prevented using a series of smart-on-crime strategies that do not require new laws or big budgets. Bringing these strategies together, Abt offers a concrete, cost-effective plan to reduce homicides by over 50 percent in eight years, saving more than 12,000 lives nationally. Violence acts as a linchpin for urban poverty, so curbing such crime can unlock the untapped potential of our cities' most disadvantaged communities and help us to bridge the nation's larger economic and social divides.

Urgent yet hopeful, Bleeding Out offers practical solutions to the national emergency of urban violence—and challenges readers to demand action.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Abt is a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice. Previously, he served as a policymaker in Barack Obama's Justice Department and worked for New York governor Andrew Cuomo, overseeing all criminal justice and homeland security agencies in the state. Abt lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1541645723
ISBN 13 
9781541645721
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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