Less Crime With Less Punishment

I bet Mark Kleiman’s publisher is mostly upset that Reihan Salam’s lavish and deserved praise for his forthcoming book has come out several months before the book is actually available for purchase. So I, personally, will save my main recommending for when the book is out.

But it’s great. The main idea of the book is that if we use smarter law enforcement, and hand out smarter punishments, we can decrease the crime rate while also becoming considerably less brutal and punitive in how we treat offenders.