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Aims and principles of contemporary American foreign relations, illustrated with references to U.S. involvement in a number of specific trouble spots and situations.

Since most crime is committed not by recidivists, but by first-time offenders (or unconvicted multiple offenders), efforts to reduce the crime rate through rehabilitative measures are misdirected. Persons who engage in any occupation, legitimate or not, will continue to do so as long as the perceived comparative net advantage remains unchanged, with new practitioners replacing those removed from the field. Crimes such as mugging or rape that occur independently of a market for their proceeds are exceptional in that there must be an increase in net advantage & decrease in estimated cost to attract more perpetrators. Reduction in the crime rate will occur not through economic or social reforms, eg, work-release, probation, parole, indeterminate sentencing, or other rehabilitative measures, but through deterrence, both "preclusive" (personal security measures) & "minatory" (guaranteed punishment), which will reduce the expected net advantage of crime by increasing the cost. K. Hyatt.