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SUMMARY:Public Policy Seminar: Criminal. Why people do bad things. Edit Ev
 ent - Tom Gash\, Institute for Government
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DTEND:20161125T133000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker - Tom Gash\, Institute for Government\n\nThere are two
  myths about crime. In one\, the criminal act is a selfish choice\, and to
 ugh punishment the only solution. In the other\, the system is at fault\, 
 and perpetrators will change only when society reforms. Both these narrati
 ves are wrong. \n\nInterweaving conversations and stories of crime with fi
 ndings from the latest research\, Tom Gash dispels the myths that inform o
 ur views of crime\, from the widespread misconception that poverty causes 
 crime\, to the belief that tough sentencing reduces it. He examines the or
 igins of criminal behaviour\, the ebb and flow of crime across the last ce
 ntury\, and the effectiveness of various government crack-downs - and in d
 oing so reveals that crime is both less rational and much easier to reduce
  than many believe. \n\nCriminal is published by Penguin books.
LOCATION:Room 119\, Alison Richard Building\, West Rd\, Cambridge CB3\,
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