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| Figure and Tables | |
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| Preface to the Tenth Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments for the First Edition | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing | |
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| Abbreviations Used in the Notes | |
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| Notes | |
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| Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure | |
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| Designed to Fail | |
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| Understanding the Decline in Crime Rates | |
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| Three Excuses that will not Wash, or How We Could Reduce Crime if We Wanted to | |
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| First Excuse: We're Too Soft! | |
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| Second Excuse: a Cost of Modern Life | |
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| Third Excuse: Blame It on the Kids! | |
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| Known Sources of Crime | |
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| Poverty and Inequality | |
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| Prison | |
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| Guns | |
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| Drugs | |
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| What Works to Reduce Crime | |
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| Failing to Reduce Crime: Erikson, Durkheim, and Foucault | |
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| Erickson, Durkheim and the Benefits of Deviance | |
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| A Word About Foucault | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Notes | |
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| A Crime by Any Other Name … | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| The Carnival Mirror | |
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| Criminal Justice as Creative Art | |
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| A Crime by Any Other Name … | |
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| Work May Be Dangerous to Your Health | |
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| Health Care May Be Dangerous to Your Health | |
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| Waging Chemical Warfare Against America | |
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| Poverty Kills | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| … And the Poor Get Prison | |
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| Weeding Out the Wealthy | |
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| Arrest and Charging | |
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| Adjudication and Conviction | |
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| Sentencing | |
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| … And the Poor Get Prison | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who is Winning the Losing War against Crime? | |
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| Why is the Criminal Justice System Failing? | |
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| The Poverty of Criminals and the Crime of Poverty | |
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| The Implicit Ideology of Criminal Justice | |
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| The Bonus of Bias | |
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| Ideology, or How to Fool Enough of the People Enough of the Time | |
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| What Is Ideology? | |
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| The Need for Ideology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice | |
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| The Crime of Justice | |
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| Rehabilitating Criminal Justice in America | |
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| Protecting Society | |
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| Promoting Justice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice | |
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| Marxism and Capitalism | |
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| Capitalism and Ideology | |
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| Ideology and Law | |
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| Law and Ethics | |
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| Notes | |
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| Between Philosophy and Criminology | |
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| Philosophical Assumptions of Social Science Generally | |
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| Special Philosophical Needs of Criminology | |
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| The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Philosophy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |