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Title The Politics of crime control / edited by Kevin Stenson and David Cowell
Published London : Sage Publications, 1991

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Description xiv, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Making sense of crime control / Kevin Stenson -- The politics of crime : the American experience / a debate between Elliott Currie and James Q. Wilson -- Crime prevention : the British experience / John Bright -- The political construction of crime prevention : a contrast between the French and British experience / Michael King -- The politics of prostitution and drug control / Neil Boyd and John Lowman -- Freedom, responsibility and justice : the criminology of the 'new right' / Chris R. Tame -- Left realism and the priorities of crime control / Jock Young -- The theoretical and political priorities of critical criminology / Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick -- Violence against women and children : the contradictions of crime control under patriarchy / Jill Radford and Elizabeth A. Stanko -- Abolitionism and crime control : a contradiction in terms / Willem de Haan
Analysis Crimes Prevention
Causes and prevention of crime
Central government policies
Crime
Crime prevention
Crime rate
Imprisonment alternatives
International comparisons
Law enforcement
Overseas item
Police and security services
Social problems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Crime prevention -- Political aspects.
Crime prevention.
Criminology.
Author Cowell, David.
Stenson, Kevin.
LC no. 91053149
ISBN 0803983417
0803983425 (paperback)