Download or read book Profitable Penalties written by Daniel Glaser and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is now spending huge sums of money `getting tough on crime' to the detriment of education and other public service expenditures//programmes. From a cost as well as crime control perspective, this unique book asks whether value for money is being gained from these investments? It looks at existing research on the subject and suggests ways of cutting both crime rates and costs?