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Criminology and Public Policy
A journal devoted to policy discussions of criminology research findings
Volume 7 Issue 2 • May 2008

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Disorder and Crime

• Editorial Introduction: Broken Windows and Broken Windows Policing
  Roger B. Parks
• Broken Windows or Window Dressing? Citizens’ (In)Ability to Tell the Difference between Disorder and Crime
  Jacinta M. Gau and Travis C. Pratt
• Policy Essay: Broken Windows: Why—And How—We Should Take Them Seriously
  Wesley G. Skogan
• Policy Essay: Making Order of Disorder: A Call for Conceptual Clarity
  Charis E. Kubrin

Asset Forfeiture

• Editorial Introduction: Asset Forfeiture and Policing
  Gilbert Geis
• Is Policing for Profit?
  Answers from Asset Forfeiture
  John L. Worrall and Tomislav V. Kovandzic
• Policy Essay: Evaluating the Balance Sheet of Asset Forfeiture Laws: Toward Evidence-Based Policy Assessments
  Eric P. Baumer
• Policy Essay: Policing Should Not Be for Profit.
  Jerome H. Skolnick

Community Supervision

• Editorial Introduction: The Social Ecology of Community Corrections—Understanding the Link between Individual and Community Change
  James M. Byrne
• No Illusions: Offender and Organizational Change in Maryland’s Proactive Community Supervision Efforts
  Faye S. Taxman
• Policy Essay: A Promising Future for Community Corrections
  Ronald P. Corbett, Jr.
• Policy Essay: Recidivism and Its Discontents
  Richard Rosenfeld

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