Money spent on prisons cannot be spent on more cost-effective methods of crime-prevention, such as better policing, drug treatment or probation.

花在监狱上的钱可以用在更有效的犯罪预防上，例如用来改善警力、戒毒治疗或缓刑。

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This article analyzes the characteristics of mental trace in crime scene, advances its carriers, and discusses the details of the ways and methods of crime scene mental trace.

文章分析了现场心理痕迹特征，提出了现场心理痕迹所依附的载体，较详细地论述了对现场心理痕迹分析的途径和方法。

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The three police forces, though, look increasingly alike when it comes to methods of tackling crime.

在处理犯罪的手法方面，三支警察队伍越来越相似。

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Nevertheless, it is likely that the threat of terrorism and organised crime, and the precedent of existing methods for tracking money, will be strong counter-arguments in favour of tracking technology.

ECONOMIST: Money of the future may almost literally talk

The methods they used to avoid detection were straight out of a crime novel - they wrote cryptic notes using numbers and letters and spoke in code on the phone.

BBC: Operation Beath

And it also leaves out the fact that you could certainly use other methods, as other cities do, to force crime down that don't rely on this kind of very aggressive stop-and-frisk activity that embarrasses and humiliates, and most importantly, drives people away from police.

NPR: The Difficulties Of Proving Racial Profiling