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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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Study Questions | |
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Additional Resources | |
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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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Additional Resources | |
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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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Additional Resources | |
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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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Additional Resources | |
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Notes | |
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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 | |