Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on 'law and order' platforms and to propose 'three strikes'--and even 'two strikes'--sentencing laws. Why is this the case? How have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions.
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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on 'law and order' platforms and to propose 'three strikes'--and even 'two strikes'--sentencing laws. Why is this the case? How have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions.
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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780198027270 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 02/29/2000 |
Series: | Studies in Crime and Public Policy Series |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 1 MB |
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