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Newly available in paperback, this volume addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking: on the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species, on the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. Topics discussed include relevance effects in reasoning and decision making, the influence of prior beliefs on thinking, the argument that appar...

The book examines data sources, discusses different crimes and ways of studying them and considers the fear of crime. The criminal justice system in the UK is examined in detail, including policy, the operations of community and police committees and an account of the experience of crime prevention policies in Britain and North America is also given.