5 Top sociology books like When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A.R. Kleiman

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When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

By: Mark A.R. Kleiman

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied f…

If you liked the sociology plot in When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A.R. Kleiman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

By: David M. Kennedy

2.78

Format: 252 pages,

Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the de… read more

Similar categories in David M. Kennedy's Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America book and Mark A.R. Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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2. In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

4.01

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were… read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood book and Mark A.R. Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

  • crime
  • nonfiction

3. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)

By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have i… read more

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4. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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5. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

By: Graham Allison

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more

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6. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

Similar categories in Peter Attia's Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity book and Mark A.R. Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

  • nonfiction
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8. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

By: Michael Lewis

4.09

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."

-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

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9. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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10. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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11. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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12. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more

Similar categories in Ben Westhoff's Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic book and Mark A.R. Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
Cover of When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A.R. Kleiman

13. When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

By: Mark A.R. Kleiman

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied f… read more

Similar categories in Mark A.R. Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment book and Mark A.R. Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology

7 Top politics books like When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A.R. Kleiman

Transform Your Habits

Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

David M. Kennedy

2.78

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Michael Lewis

4.09

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Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

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7 Top classics books like In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

3.80

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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

4.01

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