| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages :) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Criminal Justice Expansion; Explaining the Expansion of the Penal System; Outline of the Book; Chapter 2. Crime in the United States; Crime in Historical Perspective; Crime in Comparative Perspective; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Murder, American Style; Popular Explanations of Violence; Guns; Inequality and Homicide; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Politics of Crime; The Origins of the Discourse of Law and Order; From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime; From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Crime in the Media; Crime in the News; Crime as Entertainment; The Police Drama; The Crime Film; The "Reality-Based" Cop Show; Media Imagery and Public Opinion; Conclusion; Chapter 6 |
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Crime and Public Opinion; Fear of Crime; Crime as a Social Problem; Popular Punitiveness; Understanding Popular Punitiveness; Alternatives to Punitiveness; Minority Dissent; Conclusion; Chapter 7. Activism and the Politics of Crime; Community-Based Crime Prevention Efforts; The Victim Rights Movement; Adverasarial Activism: Human Rights Campaigns Against Police Brutality, Capital Punishment, and the War on Drugs; Conclusion; Chapter 8. Crime and Public Policy; Drug Policing; Punitive Sentencing; Return of Capital Punishment; Retreat From Juvenile Justice; Prisoner Warehousing; The Surveillance Society; Criminal Justice and Democracy; Conclusion; Chapter 9 |
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Alternatives; Social Investment; Harm Reduction; Alternative Sentencing; Rehabilitating Reintegration; Toward Disarmament; Community Policing; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; |
| Summary |
Examining the role of crime in American politics and culture this edition provides a better understanding of the nature of crime and punishment in America, as well as the cultural and political contexts in which they occur. The book will be of interest to criminology students |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Crime -- United States.
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Crime prevention -- United States
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Crime
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Crime prevention
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Strafrecht.
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Criminaliteit.
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Straffen.
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Crimes et criminels -- États-Unis.
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Criminalité -- Prévention -- États-Unis.
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Justice -- Administration -- États-Unis.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sasson, Theodore, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2003013109 |
| ISBN |
9781452262918 |
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1452262918 |
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9781452229614 |
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1452229619 |
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1506318908 |
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9781506318905 |
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