Thinking About Crime

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book criminology book non-fiction book

"Thinking About Crime" is a seminal work of criminology and public policy in which James Q. Wilson analyzes the causes of crime and advocates for deterrence-focused, tough-on-crime strategies.

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Label	Occurrences
Thinking About Crime canonical	2

Statements (33)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ criminology book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ
academicDiscipline	criminology ⓘ political science ⓘ public policy studies ⓘ
advocates	deterrence-focused crime policy ⓘ tough-on-crime strategies ⓘ
associatedWithConcept	certainty of punishment ⓘ incapacitation of offenders ⓘ severity of punishment ⓘ
associatedWithTheory	deterrence theory of punishment ⓘ
author	James Q. Wilson ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
critiques	rehabilitation-focused crime policies ⓘ root-cause explanations of crime ⓘ
describedBySource	seminal work of criminology and public policy ⓘ
focusesOn	causes of crime ⓘ crime control strategies ⓘ
genre	academic literature ⓘ
hasPerspective	conservative approach to crime control ⓘ
influencedField	American criminal justice policy ⓘ law-and-order politics ⓘ public debates on crime ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	crime ⓘ criminal justice policy ⓘ criminology ⓘ deterrence theory ⓘ public policy ⓘ
notableFor	popularizing tough-on-crime arguments in the United States ⓘ shaping modern deterrence-based crime policy discourse ⓘ
publicationCentury	20th century ⓘ

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
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- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Thinking About Crime
Description of subject: "Thinking About Crime" is a seminal work of criminology and public policy in which James Q. Wilson analyzes the causes of crime and advocates for deterrence-focused, tough-on-crime strategies.

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James Q. Wilson → notableWork → Thinking About Crime ⓘ

James Quinn Wilson → notableWork → Thinking About Crime ⓘ

subject surface form: James Q. Wilson