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Author Windlesham, David James George Hennessy, Baron, 1932-2010.

Title Politics, punishment, and populism / Lord Windlesham
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 278 pages)
Series Studies in crime and public policy
Studies in crime and public policy.
Contents The politics of crime -- Organized interests and populist beliefs -- Symbolism and reality -- Partisanship and compromise -- Ending the insanity -- Processing the contract -- Money and ideology -- Congress and the courts -- A new isolationism
Summary Former minister and current British government legislator Lord Windlesham examines the American federal crime-control laws that surfaced before and after the 1994 ""Republican Revolution"" in Congress. He focuses on the pressure populist opinion and special interests exert on shaping crime policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-265) and index
Notes English
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Crime prevention -- United States
Gun control -- United States
Pressure groups -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime prevention
Criminal justice, Administration of
Gun control
Pressure groups
Overheidsbeleid.
Strafprocesrecht.
Criminaliteit.
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97051415
ISBN 1429404477
9781429404471
1280529555
9781280529559
0195354028
9780195354027