Politics, crime control, and culture /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, Dartmouth, c1997. |
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| Description: | xxv, 553 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The international library of criminology, crimal justice, and penology International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4323600 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Politics, Policy and Punishment
- Racial politics, racial disparities and the war on crime
- Giving crime prevention top priority
- Gazette of morality and social whip: punishment hegemony and the case of the USA, 1970-1992
- The politics of law and order: case study evidence for a conflict model of the criminal law formation process
- Sexual violence, victim advocacy and republican criminology: Washington State's Community Protection Act
- Policing appearances
- Social crime and prevention a la Thatcher
- Part 2. Public Opinion and Punishment: 3 strikes and you are out, but why?: the psychology of public support for punishing rule breakers
- Hardening of the attitudes: American's view of the death penalty
- A new look at public opinion on capital punishment: what citizens and legislators prefer
- The modern prison as total institution: public perception versus objective reality
- Punitive attitudes toward criminals: racial consensus or racial conflict
- African American conspiracy theories and the social construction of crime
- Part 3. The Cultural Production of Crime and Punishment
- Mass mediated themes of crime and justice
- Getting the message out: feminists, the Press and violence against women
- Accidents, icons and indexing: the dynamics of news coverage of police use of force
- Mass media, crime, law and justice
- Knowledge, domination and criminal punishment
- A mass psychology of punishment: crime and the futility of rationally based approaches
- They died with their boots on: the Boot Camp and the limits of modern penalty
- Name index
