The amount of crime is determined not only by the rationality and preferences of would-be criminals, but also by the economic and social environment created by public policies, including expenditures on police, punishments for different crimes, and opportunities for employment, schooling, and training programs.


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DENNIS BECKER
There's a deduction for any sort of verbalization. She's up there speaking in complete sentences - n...
EYRE BECKER
We have to remember that these are revenue projections and not necessarily real dollars. Maine shoul...
BILL BECKER
If you essentially put yourself in an auditory cave, you?re going to miss opportunities to learn by ...
FRANKLIN BECKER
There were a lot of intelligent viewpoints on both sides.
RICHARD BECKER
The first load, 50 pieces were soaking wet, ... We unframed everything, got them stable, lying flat ...
HEATHER BECKER
They aren't Jeb Bush. They don't speak Spanish off the top of their head. They have to distinguish t...
GEOFFREY BECKER
They've essentially abdicated responsibility for fuel economy to the automakers.
DAN BECKER
What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without subst...
WALTER BECKER
There's no way we can hand-write all of the checks we have to write to vendors without the computers...
BRAD BECKER
We had to do a lot of up-front setup. Companies can go out of business if they have a fire and haven...
BRAD BECKER
We're totally dependent on computer accounting and record keeping.
BRAD BECKER
Their client base is more sensitive to price increases than clients of fine restaurants.
BOB BECKER
Once it's district, the coaches say there is no more getting better. (The coaches) just keep ... mak...
FRANK BECKER
...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contrad...
ERNEST BECKER
The median amount of time from when the symptoms start to when they do die is four to five months an...
CHERYLE BECKER
He came up to me and said, ?Can you buy me some toys?? We would have bought every toy store for this...
RICK BECKER
How do we know there's not more out there. We have to figure out a way do that.
BILL BECKER
He hit it with a hammer, and a sliver of metal came and hit him in the right eye. He had a pretty mi...
BILL BECKER
She really gave up a year of her life.
BILL BECKER
It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to...
DAN BECKER
We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what...
JOE BECKER
There are amazing challenges and obstacles.
JOE BECKER
The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alab...
JOE BECKER
Hurricane Katrina is wreaking havoc for southeast Florida and the Gulf coast states. The Red Cross w...
JOE BECKER
They said they thought he might be a burglary suspect.
JOE BECKER
People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
ERNEST BECKER
Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There see...
ERNEST BECKER
Something's fishy when the Bush administration delays a report showing no improvement in fuel econom...
DANIEL BECKER
It's a long-term hope, but in the meantime we want to use the technology available today to make cle...
DANIEL BECKER
Ford is at the bottom of the barrel among major auto makers on fuel economy, but today is a better d...
DAN BECKER
If the United States had taken a leading role in trying to make this a meaningful agreement ... then...
DAN BECKER
We're very careful not to place any beer advertising where the audience is a majority of people who ...
JEFF BECKER
It's a bit like telling a three-pack-a-day smoker to give up one cigarette a day.
DAN BECKER
This new standard is like telling a two-pack-a-day smoker to cut out one cigarette a day.
DANIEL BECKER
We'll continue to have a major presence and impact here. These latest asset decisions are aimed at s...
DAN BECKER
Landlords need to be more accountable for the people in their buildings. It is not OK to have four o...
DAN BECKER
At a time when Americans are paying record prices for gas, the Bush administration has sided with it...
DAN BECKER