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Smart on Crime

A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer By Kamala D. Harris
with Joan O

5-1/2 x 8 in; 208 pp ;
Hardcover
Published in September, 2009
ISBN 9780811865289
ISBN10 0811865282

$24.95  

Smart on Crime -- The old approaches to fighting crime just aren't working. Two thirds of people released from prison commit another crime within two years. In Smart on Crime, career prosecutor Kamala D. Harris shatters the old distinctions, rooted in false choices and myths, and offers a compelling argument for how to make the criminal justice system truly, not just rhetorically, tough. Harris spells out the necessary shifts that will increase public safety, reduce costs, and strengthen our communities when our politicians and law enforcement officials learn how to become tough and smart on crime.

Kamala D. Harris was a prosecutor in Oakland, California, before being elected as San Francisco's District Attorney in 2003 and re-elected in 2007.

Joan O'C. Hamilton is a Menlo Park, California-based writer and former Bay Area bureau chief for Business Week magazine.