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The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response (3rd Edition) by Henry S. Ruth, Kevin R. Reitz Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-674-02106-1 / 0674021061 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02106-8 / 9780674021068 The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a three-decade pattern of prison growth |